Methods and compositions for performing continuous directed evolution

ABSTRACT

Disclosed herein are methods of performing continuous directed evolution in complex biological systems, including metazoan cells. These methods include the infection of engineered, non-naturally occurring metazoan cells with engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA viruses. The generation of infectious viruses that can infect new cells depends on the evolution of a gene of interest which is driven by an error-prone adenoviral polymerase. Also disclosed herein, are the compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurring metazoan cells and engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA viruses that function as components in the continuous directed evolution methodologies.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to U.S.provisional patent application No. 62/734,520, filed Sep. 21, 2018 andU.S. provisional application No. 62/577,867, filed Oct. 27, 2017, theentire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

This invention was made with Government support under Grant No. GM119162awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The Government has certainrights in the invention.

FIELD

Disclosed herein are methods of performing continuous directed evolutionin complex biological systems, including metazoan cells. These methodsinclude the infection of engineered, non-naturally occurring metazoancells with engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA viruses. Thegeneration of infectious viruses that can infect new cells depends onthe evolution of a gene of interest which is driven by an error-proneDNA virus DNA polymerase. Also disclosed herein, are the compositions ofengineered, non-naturally occurring metazoan cells and engineered,non-naturally occurring DNA viruses that function as components in thecontinuous directed evolution methodologies.

BACKGROUND

Existing directed evolution platforms typically involve either nonlivingor simple biologically systems, such as bacteria or yeast. Generally,performing directed evolution in non-living or simple biological systemsis a time-intensive process because these system require discrete stepsfor mutagenesis, screening/selection, and amplification—requiring anumber of weeks for a single round of directed evolution. The principalalternative approach, directed evolution by somatic hypermutation,relies on the tedious screening of positive variants byfluorescence-assisted cell sorting (FACS) and requires at least a weekfor a single round of directed evolution because of the slow growth rateof eukaryotic cells (Wang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2004Nov. 30; 101(48):16745-49). Both the FACS approach to screening and theslow cellular growth rate significantly limit the size of the librarythat can be effectively screened and amplified using directed evolutionby somatic hypermutation.

SUMMARY

Genetic engineers have long aspired to create tailored biomolecules withnew or improved functions. However, these aspiration have been limitedby the shortcomings of currently available technologies, such as“cheating” mechanisms that can subvert selection. Provided herein aremethodologies that overcome these shortcomings and their compositions.

Disclosed herein are compositions of components of directed evolutionsystems. In one aspect, the compositions of engineered, non-naturallyoccurring DNA viruses are provided. In some embodiments, the engineered,non-naturally occurring DNA virus comprises a modified genome, whereinthe modified genome comprises: (a) an integration of at least onepolynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of a transcribablegene of interest; (b) a deletion of the sequence encoding for the viralDNA polymerase; and (c) a deletion of at least one sequence encoding fora protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles.

In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virusis an adenovirus. In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturallyoccurring adenovirus is derived from an adenovirus selected from thegenera consisting of Adenovirus, Aviadenovirus, Ichtadenovirus,Mastadenovirus, and Siadenovirus. In some embodiments, the engineered,non-naturally occurring adenovirus is derived from a Mastadenovirusadenovirus. In some embodiments, the adenovirus is a human adenovirusselected from the group consisting of HAdV-A, HAdV-B, HAdV-C, HAdV-D,HAdV-E, HAdV-F, and HAdV-G. In some embodiments, the human adenovirus isa HAdV-C adenovirus selected from the group consisting of HAd2 and HAd5.

In some embodiments, the at least one sequence encoding for a proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles is notthe sequence of the adenoviral fiber protein. In some embodiments, theat least one sequence encoding for a protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles comprises the sequenceencoding for the adenoviral protease.

In another aspect, compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurringmetazoan cells are provided. In some embodiments, the engineered,non-naturally occurring living metazoan cell comprises a modifiedgenome, wherein the modified genome comprises: (a) an integration of apolynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of an error-prone DNAvirus DNA polymerase and (b) an integration of at least one polynucleicacid sequence comprising a sequence encoding for an expressible protein,wherein said expressible protein is necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles.

In some embodiments, the metazoan cell from which the non-naturallyoccurring living metazoan cell is derived is susceptible to DNA virusinfection in the metazoan cell's native state. In some embodiments, theengineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cell is derived fromthe group consisting of a human, mouse, rat, cat, dog, pig, guinea pig,hamster, sheep, macaque, and chimpanzee cell. In some embodiments, theengineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cell is derived froma human cell line. In some embodiments, the human cell line is HEK-293.

In some embodiments, the sequence of the error-prone DNA virus DNApolymerase is the sequence of an error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase.In some embodiments, the sequence of the error-prone DNA virus DNApolymerase is a non-natural adenoviral polymerase sequence derived froma sequences selected from the group consisting of the HAd2 DNApolymerase sequence and the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence. In someembodiments, the sequence of the error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase isa non-natural adenoviral DNA polymerase sequence derived from the HAd5DNA polymerase sequence. In some embodiments, the non-natural adenoviralDNA polymerase sequence derived from the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequencecomprises the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence with at least one mutationselected from the group consisting of T286I, N417A, F421Y, S506T, V585A,and D827A. In some embodiments, the non-natural adenoviral DNApolymerase sequence derived from the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence is SEQID NO: 27.

In some embodiments, the sequence encoding for a protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles is not the sequence ofthe adenoviral fiber protein. In some embodiments, the sequence encodingfor a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles comprises the sequence of the adenoviral protease.

Also disclosed herein are methods of performing continuous directedevolution in complex biological systems, including metazoan cells. Insome embodiments, methods of performing continuous directed evolution ofa polynucleic acid sequences that comprises the sequence of at least onegene of interest are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprisesinfecting engineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells withat least one engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus, wherein: (a)the at least one engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus comprisesa modified genome, wherein the modified genome comprises: an integrationof at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of atranscribable gene of interest; a deletion of the sequence encoding forthe viral DNA polymerase; and a deletion of at least one sequenceencoding for a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles; (b) the engineered, non-naturally occurring livingmetazoan cells comprise modified genomes, wherein each modified genomecomprises: an integration of a polynucleic acid sequence comprising thesequence of an error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase and an integrationof at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequenceencoding for the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles in (a) under the control of a functionally-coupledpromoter, optionally a transcriptionally-coupled promoter; and (c)generating infectious DNA virus particles by the engineered,non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells infected with the at leastone engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus, wherein thegeneration of the infectious DNA virus particles is dependent upon theevolution of the at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising thesequence of the transcribable gene of interest in (a), wherein saidevolution is driven by the error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase encodedby the polynucleic acid sequence of (b). In some embodiments, the methodfurther comprises screening the engineered, non-naturally occurringliving metazoan cells for highly infectious DNA virus particles.

In some embodiments, at least one of the at least one polynucleic acidsequences comprising the sequence of a transcribable gene of interest in(a) is a protein coding sequence, wherein expression and translation ofthe protein coding sequence generates at least one protein product.

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,induces the expression of the at least one polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles in (b), and administeringan agent that decreases the capability of the at least one proteinproduct of inducing expression of the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles in (b).

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,inhibits the expression of the at least one polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles in (b).

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,cannot induce the expression of the at least one polynucleic acidsequence comprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles in (b).

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,regulates the stability of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA viruses.

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,regulates the subcellular trafficking of the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA viruses.

In some embodiments, the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles in (b) furthercomprises the sequence of an inhibitory tag, wherein the sequence of theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particlesand the sequence of the inhibitory tag are coupled, and wherein: (a)translation of the sequence comprising the sequence encoding for theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particlesand the sequence of the inhibitory tag generates a tagged protein and(b) removal of inhibitory tag in (a) is dependent upon the evolution ofthe at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence ofthe gene of interest.

In some embodiments, the inhibitory tag is selected from the groupconsisting of a protein degradation tag or a protein sequestration tag.In some embodiments, the inhibitory tag is protein degradation tag,wherein the protein degradation tag is a degron tag. In someembodiments, the gene of interest is a protease.

In some embodiments, at least one of the at least one polynucleic acidsequences comprising the sequence of a transcribable gene of interest in(a) is the sequence of a non-coding RNA. In some embodiments, thesequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles in (b) further comprises a premature stopcodon in the sequence encoding for the at least one protein necessaryfor the production of infectious DNA virus particles. In someembodiments, the sequence of the gene of interest comprises the sequenceof a tRNA. In some embodiments, the sequence of the gene of interestcomprises the sequence of an aminoacyl tRNA synthetase.

In some embodiments, the at least one sequence encoding for a proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles is notthe sequence of the adenoviral fiber protein. In some embodiments, atleast one of the at least one sequence encoding for a protein necessaryfor the production of infectious DNA viral particles comprises thesequence encoding for the adenoviral protease.

In some embodiments, the at least one engineered, non-naturallyoccurring DNA virus is derived from an adenovirus. In some embodiments,the adenovirus selected from the genera consisting of Adenovirus,Aviadenovirus, Ichtadenovirus, Mastadenovirus, and Siadenovirus. In someembodiments, the adenovirus is derived from a Mastadenovirus adenovirus.In some embodiments, the adenovirus is a human adenovirus selected fromthe group consisting of HAdV-A, HAdV-B, HAdV-C, HAdV-D, HAdV-E, HAdV-F,and HAdV-G. In some embodiments, the human adenovirus is a HAdV-Cadenovirus selected from the group consisting of HAd2 and HAd5.

In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurring livingmetazoan cells are derived from the group consisting of a human, mouse,rat, cat, dog, pig, guinea pig, hamster, sheep, macaque, and chimpanzeecells. In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurringliving metazoan cells are derived from a human cell line. In someembodiments, the human cell line is HEK-293.

In some embodiments, the sequence of the error-prone DNA virus DNApolymerase is a non-natural adenoviral polymerase sequence derived froma sequences selected from the group consisting of the HAd2 and HAd5 DNApolymerase sequence. In some embodiments, the sequence of theerror-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase is a non-natural adenoviral DNApolymerase sequence derived from the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence. Insome embodiments, the non-natural adenoviral DNA polymerase sequencederived from the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence comprises the HAd5 DNApolymerase sequence with at least one mutation selected from the groupconsisting of T286I, N417A, F421Y, S506T, V585A, and D827A. In someembodiments, the non-natural adenoviral DNA polymerase sequence derivedfrom the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence consisting of SEQ ID NO: 27.

In some embodiments, the error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase isconstitutively expressed in the engineered, non-naturally occurringmetazoan cells.

In some embodiments, a small molecule is added to the culture conditionsto increase selection stringency, wherein the small molecule decreasesthe functionality of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA viral particles.

In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurring livingmetazoan cells are in suspension.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The following drawings form part of the present specification and areincluded to further demonstrate certain aspects of the presentdisclosure, which can be better understood by reference to one or moreof these drawings in combination with the detailed description ofspecific embodiments presented herein. It is to be understood that thedata illustrated in the drawings in no way limit the scope of thedisclosure.

FIG. 1. Advantages/disadvantages of directed evolution platforms formetazoan applications. Many directed evolution systems exist, includingin vitro-, bacterial-, and yeast-based systems. In all of these systems,mechanisms exist to mutagenize genes of interest, select for positivevariants, and even evolve biomolecules continuously. However, each ofthese systems lack the environment of the metazoan cell, including theproper post-translational modification networks, appropriate biologicalmachinery (sub-cellular compartments, transcriptional machinery, etc.),and the proper proteostasis networks. Importantly, no robust system tomutagenize and select for biomolecules continuously in human cells haspreviously been described.

FIG. 2. Continuous directed evolution in human cells by co-opting viralreplication. Here a DNA virus is represented by adenovirus: 1)Adenoviruses that contain a gene of interest (“GOI”) and are deleted forboth adenoviral polymerase (AdPol) and protease (Prot) genes areproduced. 2) Metazoan cells that constitutively express an error-proneadenoviral polymerase (EP-pol) and that express adenoviral protease(Prot) under the control of a transcriptionally-coupled promoter (CoPro)are infected with the adenoviruses. 3) If the GOI can induce proteaseexpression, 4) infectious viruses are produced that can infect newcells. 5) If the GOI cannot induce protease expression, 6) poorlyinfectious adenoviruses are produced. ITR: inverted terminal repeats.

FIG. 3. EP-Pol shows a high rate of mutagenesis compared to wild-typeAdPol (WT-Pol). Viruses were passaged ten times on HEK-293A cellsexpressing either WT-Pol or EP-Pol. Pools of ˜50 clones of each viruswere then amplified, and a 6.5 kb region of the genome was amplified fornext-gen sequencing. The plot shows coverage across the 6.5 kb region inlight grey and substitutions per 100-nt bin in dark grey. The data showsthat adenovirus passaged on EP-Pol accumulates significantly moremutations across 10 passages than viruses on WT-Pol.

FIG. 4. Comparison of error rates of common human viruses. AdPol has avery low error-rate; far lower than what is necessary for efficientdirected evolution. By contrast, EP-Pol, has a significantly highererror rate that is comparable to highly mutagenic RNA viruses such asinfluenza and HIV.

FIG. 5. Vector map of lentivirus constructs for expression of HA-taggedadenovirus polymerase variants. Construct design is the same for bothWT-Pol and EP-Pol.

FIG. 6. Western blot of HA-tagged adenovirus polymerase stably expressedin HEK-293A cells. Two separate cell lines, one expressing EP-Pol andone expression the WT-Pol, were created.

FIG. 7. Trans-complementation of AdPol supports pol-deleted adenoviralreplication. AdPol-expressing cell lines were infected at a low MOI withGFP-expressing adenovirus that was deleted for adenovirus polymerase.Infection was monitored by fluorescence over five days. While 293A thatdid not express adenovirus polymerase showed fluorescence, indicatingsuccessful infection, the infection did not spread. Only adenovirusinfecting polymerase trans-complemented cell lines (WT-Pol, EP-Pol) wereable to spread.

FIG. 8. Vector map of lentiviral construct for constitutive ad-protexpression. This construct has a tripartite leader sequence appended 5′to the start codon of ad-prot. This tripartite leader sequencefacilitates robust expression throughout the adenoviral life cycle.

FIG. 9. Validation of adenovirus protease-expressing cell lines. Celllines stably expressing protease under control of constitutive (cProt)and inducible (iProt) promoters were created. These cell lines werevalidated by qPCR analysis of protease mRNA expression. The cProt cellline also contains WT-Pol and is used to producepol-deleted/prot-deleted adenoviruses. The iProt cell line also containsEP-Pol and is used to evolve the tet-transactivator inpol-deleted/prot-deleted adenoviruses. The iProt cell line shows lowexpression of protease unless the tet-transactivator (TTA) istransfected. All samples were normalized to protease expression in a293A cell line that does not contain the adenovirus protease gene.

FIG. 10. Vector map of lentiviral construct for TTA-inducible ad-protexpression. This plasmid contains ad-prot under transcriptional controlof the TRE3G promoter.

FIG. 11. Vector map of TTA-Δpol-Δprot-adenovirus used in directedevolution experiments. This map outlines the key adenoviral genes, aswell as the expression cassettes that were inserted for expression ofTTA and mCherry. The adenovirus genome is excised from this plasmid bydigestion with PacI prior to transfection to generate adenovirus.

FIG. 12. TRE3G.prot cells are able to impart selective growth onΔpolAprot-adenoviruses that contain the tet-transactivator.ΔpolAprot-adenoviruses that lack the tet-transactivator (CFPΔpolΔprot)were unable to spread on TRE3G.prot cells.

FIG. 13. Top frequency mutations observed at any passage. Mutations weredetermined to be fixed if they reached a stable level for the durationof passaging.

FIG. 14. Directed evolution of doxycycline insensitivity results inaccumulation of specific mutants. The tet-transactivator was amplifiedfrom different passages of the directed evolution and sequenced in orderto determine the relative frequencies of mutants within the population.Previously discovered doxycycline-insensitive mutants were found toaccumulate to various levels throughout the course of the directedevolution experiment. At passage 4, several mutations were observed,including E147K, D178E, H100Y, A50G, and G102V. After further passages,the E147K mutation accumulated to almost 100% frequency. Overall, thisexperiment provides proof-of-principle that continuous directedevolution in human cells using adenovirus is possible.

FIG. 15. Structure of adenovirus protease inhibitor used to tuneselection stringency.

FIG. 16. Inhibition of adenovirus growth with an adenovirus proteaseinhibitor. HEK-293A cells were infected with GFP-expressing adenovirus(MOI=1) and treated with various concentrations of protease inhibitor.Viruses were harvested after 2 days and used to re-infect HEK-293A atvarious volumes to determine titer. Fluorescent cells were analyzed byflow cytometry.

FIG. 17. Synthesis of the adenovirus protease inhibitor. Reagents andconditions: a. HBTU, HOBT, DIPEA, DCM, rt 16 hr 90%; b. 1M HCl in THF,rt, 3.5 hr 97%; c. EDC, DIPEA, DCM, rt 16 hr 34%; d. LiOH 6:1 THF:H20,rt 2 hr 100%; e. NaH, THF, 0° C.→rt 2 hr 21%; f. TFA, rt 2.5 hr 91%; andg. HBTU, HOBT, DIPEA, DCM, rt 16 hr 24%.

FIGS. 18A-18C. Selected examples of the many possible alternativeselection schemes that do not rely on a transcriptional couple. FIG.18A. Prot stability is regulated by a degron. Only stabilization orremoval of the degron by the GOI results in functional prot. FIG. 18B.Prot is localized to some subcellular compartment via a localizationsignal (such as a nuclear ex-port signal). GOI variants that are able toinduce prot transport to the nucleus, where it is required for properfunction, will result in functional adenovirus. FIG. 18C. Atranslational couple to evolve aaRS/tRNA pairs. A premature amber stopcodon at a permissive site in prot results in termination and anonfunctional, truncated prot. However, if a functional aaRS/tRNA pairis able to suppress the amber stop codon, prot will be translated infull.

FIGS. 19A-19C. Human cell-based directed evolution platform overview.FIG. 19A. Schematic of an engineered adenovirus type-5 vector in whichgenes for adenoviral polymerase (AdPol) and pro-tease (AdProt) areremoved and a gene encoding the biomolecule of interest (BOI) fordirected evolution is introduced, as well as a fluorescent protein (FP)for visualization during infection. FIG. 19B. Schematic of engineeredhuman cells constitutively expressing a highly error-prone AdPol (termedEP-Pol) and conditionally ex-pressing AdProt at levels directlydependent on BOI activity. FIG. 19C. Schematic for adenoviral-baseddirected evolution of BOIs in human cells: (i) The BOI is delivered intothe human cell via ade-noviral infection. (ii) EP-Pol introducesmutations into the BOI gene, generating a mutational library. (iii) Thedesired BOI function is coupled to the expression or activity of AdProtsuch that (iv) only functional BOI variants result in viral propagation.(v) If the BOI variant is non-functional, AdProt is not expressed oractive and the adenovirus encoding that variant is outcompeted.

FIGS. 20A-20D. FIG. 20A. Crystal structure of the +29 DNA polymerase(PDBID 1 XHZ) (Kamtekar S. et al., Mol. Cell 16, 609-618 (2004)), anAdPol homolog, with the locations of homologous mutations used to createEP-Pol indicated (Kamtekar S. et al., Mol. Cell 16, 609-618,doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.10.019 (2004)). FIG. 20B. Either parentalHEK293A cells or cells constitutively expressing EP-Pol were infectedwith a GFP-encoding ΔAdPol-adenovirus (CFP. ΔAdPol.GFP). The viruspropagated only on EP-Pol trans-complementing cells. Similar resultswere obtained for wild-type AdPol (FIG. 24). FIG. 20C. ΔAdPol-adenovirus(AdGLΔPol [Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011);Lichy J. H. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 79, 5225-5229 (1982)])) wasserially passaged on EP-Pol expressing cells for ten passages, afterwhich a 6.5 kb genomic fragment was amplified from an ˜30 clone pool.Illumina sequencing identified mutations throughout the amplifiedregion. For substitution values, see TABLE 4. FIG. 20D. Mutationalspectrum of EP-Pol evaluated by next-generation sequencing.

FIGS. 21A-21C. FIG. 21A. Schematic of the competition experiment betweenadenoviruses that carry the gene for wild-type tetracyclinetransactivator (tTA_(wt).mCherry) versus viruses that carry inactive tTA(tTA_(mut).GFP). HEK293A cells stably encoding the gene for adenoviralprotease (AdProt) under control of the endogenous tTA operator areinfected by an initial ratio of 1:100 or 1:1,000 tTA_(wt).mCherry totTA_(mut).GFP viruses. Viral media was serially passaged onto a newplate of cells for three rounds. The viral populations were thendetermined via flow cytometry. FIG. 21B. Quantification of flowcytometry data from the competition experiment. The proportion oftTA_(wt).mCherry adenoviruses relative to tTA_(mut).GFP adenovirusesrapidly increased with each passage. The initial ratio of the 1:1,000sample (labeled N.D.; not detectable) was not experimentallyquantifiable owing to the low amount of tTAwt.mCherry adenoviruspresent, and was therefore derived by dilution of the 1:100 initialratio. For raw flow cytometry data, see FIG. 26 and FIG. 27. FIG. 21C.AdProt-based selection pressure in combination with administration of asmall molecule AdProt inhibitor (structure shown) provides access to anorders of magnitude-wide dynamic range of selection pressure.tTA-inducible AdProt cells were infected with tTA_(wt).mCherryadenovirus, and treated with a combination of doxycycline (dox) and theAdProt inhibitor. The resulting viral supernatant was titered by flowcytometry. The titer of the adenovirus treated with 20 μM AdProtinhibitor and 2 nM dox was too low to be accurately detected (N.D.; notdetectable).

FIGS. 22A-22F. FIG. 22A. Serial-passaging schemes for evolvingfunctional tTA variants that gain dox resistance in human cells. Twoapproaches to selection pressure were used, either with increasing doxconcentrations (Trial 1) or a constant, moderate dox concentration(Trial 2). FIG. 22B. tTA-induced GFP expression in the presence of doxafter each round of evolution for Trial 1. Phenotyping cells wereinfected with passaged viral populations and analyzed by flow cytometry.The percentage of infected GFP-positive cells at each passage in thepresence of dox was normalized to the percentage of infectedGFP-positive cells at each passage in the absence of dox. N.D.=notdetectable owing to low viral titer. FIG. 22C. Non-reference allelefrequencies for all mutations observed at >1% frequency over the courseof the directed evolution experiment for Trial 1 (see FIG. 28 for Trial2). A schematic of the sequenced amplicon is shown below the x-axis forreference. FIG. 22D. Mutational trajectories of four mutationsidentified in Trial 1, including two non-coding mutations in the CMVpromoter upstream of the tTA gene. FIG. 22E. Mutational trajectories offour abundant mutations identified in Trial 2, including two non-codingmutations in the CMV promoter upstream of the tTA gene. FIG. 22F.Plasmids encoding the tTA variants that fixed in Trials 1 and 2 weretransfected, along with the pLVX-TRE3G.eGFP reporter plasmid, intoHEK293A cells with or without dox (N=3). Two days later, flow cytometrywas performed to examine tTA variant activity in the presence versus theabsence of 20 μM dox.

FIG. 23. The gene encoding a biomolecule of interest (BOI) is firstinserted into pAdEvolve. “Producer” cells (see cell lines listed inTABLE 3) are used to generate ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenoviruses carrying theBOI gene. If desired, the BOI gene can be mutated prior to selection byfirst passaging the adenovirus on a “mutator” cell line constitutivelyexpressing EP-Pol. A “selector” cell line tailored to the activity ofinterest is generated by the researcher, followed by serial passaging ofviral supernatants on the selector cells. Directed evolution isaccomplished through serial passaging of viral supernatants on selectorcells to evolve the BOI (BOI*).

FIG. 24. Transcomplementation of wild-type adenoviral polymerase(AdPol). Parental HEK293A cells stably expressing wt AdPol were infectedwith a GFP-encoding ΔAdPol-adenovirus (CFP.ΔAdPol.GFP). The viruspropagated robustly on these AdPol expressing cells.

FIG. 25. ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenovirus was used to infect HEK293A cells,AdPol-expressing cells, or producer cells (TABLE 3) at a lowmultiplicity of infection (<0.5). The infection was monitored over 10days. The parental HEK293A cells showed no visible sign of infection,likely because without AdPol expression the copy number of the CFP genewas too low in the cell to easily visualize fluorescence with laboratorymicroscopes. The AdPol-expressing cells showed a strong CFP signalindicating a robust infection, however the infection did not spreadowing to a lack of AdProt. In contrast, the producer cellstrans-complementing both AdPol and AdProt were able to support aspreading infection, with every cell in the plate infected by day 10.

FIG. 26. Flow cytometry data showing infection with mixed samples oftTA_(wt).mCherry adenoviruses and tTA_(mut).GFP adenoviruses (TABLE 2)over three serial passages. Density plots show cells infected withtTA_(wt).mCherry adenoviruses (Q1), tTA_(mut).GFP adenoviruses (Q4), orboth (Q3). Quantifications of each quadrant as a percentage of the totalpopulation are shown.

FIG. 27. Example raw flow cytometry data. Gates P1-P3 were used toeliminate cell debris and cell aggregates. Gate P4 was used to removedead cells by only gating for DAPI-negative cells. Gates Q1-Q4 were usedto gate for GFP-positive and mCherry-positive cells. This specific dataset was used to calculate the initial ratio of tTA_(wt).mCherry virus totTA_(mut).GFP virus in the competition experiment (FIG. 20A and FIG.26).

FIG. 28. Non-reference allele frequencies at >1% frequency over thecourse of the directed evolution experiment for Trial 2.

FIG. 29. Recombineering counter selection scheme to make a targeted,seamless deletion in the adenoviral genome. (i) The ccdA antitoxin andrecombineering machinery are induced from the pSC101 plasmid in DH10Bcells containing the adenoviral genome in the form of a bacterialartificial chromosome (BAC). (ii) A PCR product containing the ccdB-Kancounterselection marker flanked by short homology arms is electroporatedinto the DH10B cells and recombined into the site of deletion. Positiverecombinants are selected on Kan. (iii) Only the recombineeringmachinery is induced from the pSC101 plasmid, in order to select againstthe ccdB toxin. (iv) For deletions, a short deletion oligo containingthe relevant homology arms is electroporated into the DH10B cells. Forinsertions, a gene insertion flanked by the relevant homology arms iselectroporated into the DH10B cells. Positive recombinants are selectedon Chlor to select for the Ad Genome BAC.

FIGS. 30A-30D. Trans-complementation of adenoviral polymerase. FIG. 30A.Two adenoviral polymerase-expressing single colony HEK293A cell lineswere created. One expressed the wild-type adenoviral polymerase(wt-AdPol), the other EP-Pol. Both proteins were tagged with an HAantigen for immunoblot detection. FIGS. 30B-30D. Either parental HEK293Acells (FIG. 30B), cells stably expressing wt-AdPol (FIG. 30C), or EP-Pol(FIG. 30D) were infected with a GFP-encoding ΔAdPol-adenovirus. Thevirus propagated only on wt AdPol or EP-Pol trans-complementing cells.

FIG. 31. mRNA expression of E2A in AdPol-expressing cells.

FIG. 32. pVI single colony expression analyzed by Western blot.

FIGS. 33A-33B. Fiber domain architecture and cell line expression. FIG.33A. Adenovirus fiber is a trimeric protein with each subunit consistingof a tail domain, 22-repeat shaft domain, and knob domain. FIG. 33B.Western blot of various fiber-expressing cell lines.

FIG. 34. mRNA expression of AProt in AdPol-expressing cells.

FIG. 35. qPCR data of AdaProt-expressing cell lines. Cell lines arelabeled by the promoter driving AdProt expression (either CMV forconstitutive expression or TRE3G for inducible expression). Induciblesamples were also transiently transfected with a tTA-expressing vectorto test the inducibility of the cell line. All samples were normalizedto the CMV.AdProt cell line.

FIG. 36. Dose response of tTA-mCherry titer when treated withdoxycycline. TTA_(wt).mCherry adenovirus displayed a linear reduction ininfectivity in response to dox treatment in TRE3G.AdProt cells. Titer isgiven in “infectious units per mL” (IU/mL), which is defined as thenumber of viruses per mL that are able to elicit a fluorescent signal incells when analyzed by flow cytometry.

FIGS. 37A-37C. Adenovirus protease inhibitor. FIG. 37A. Structure ofvinyl sulfone protease inhibitor. FIG. 37B. The titer of Ad5.GFP inresponse to a single round of passaging in the presence of variousconcentrations of protease inhibitor. FIG. 37C. The titer oftTAwt.mCherry viruses decreased in a dose-dependent manner when grown inthe presence of varying concentrations of a vinyl sulfone AdProtinhibitor in both the absence and presence of 2 nM dox.

FIGS. 38A-38D. Deep sequencing of evolved viral populations. FIG. 38A.Non-reference allele frequencies for all mutations observed at >1%frequency over the course of the directed evolution experiment forTrial 1. Schematic of the sequenced amplicon is shown below the x-axisfor reference. FIG. 38B. Non-reference allele frequencies at >1%frequency over the course of the directed evolution experiment for Trial2. FIG. 38C. Mutational frequency of the four abundant mutations inTrial 1, including two noncoding mutations in the CMV promoter upstreamof the tTA gene. FIG. 38D. Mutational trajectories of four abundantmutations identified in Trial 2, including two non-coding mutations inthe CMV promoter upstream of the tTA gene.

FIGS. 39A-39B. Reverse genetics to validate observed dox-resistant andCMV promoter mutants. FIG. 39A. tTA variants were co-transfected intriplicate with the pLVX.TRE3G.eGFP reporter plasmid into HEK293A cellsand dox was added. Two days later, flow cytometry was performed toexamine the inducibility of tTA variants in the presence of dox. FIG.39B. RT-qPCR data showing tTA transcripts driven by CMV promotermutants. Relative transcription levels are normalized to mCherrytranscript levels since mCherry expression was driven by a differentpromoter on the same plasmid.

FIGS. 40A-40B. Generalized experiment to test diverse genetic selectioncircuits. A genetic circuit that places the AdProt gene under control ofsome BOI function is transfected into wild-type AdPol cells to formmodel “selector” cells. FIG. 40A. If these cells are infected with avirus that does not contain an active BOI, the lack of active AdProtmeans that the virus cannot replicate. FIG. 40B. If the selector cellsare infected with a virus that carries an active BOI, active AdProt isproduced, allowing the virus to replicate. Viral titers of the twopopulations are compared by flow cytometry.

FIGS. 41A-41B. Genetic selection circuits to evolve diverse functions.FIG. 41A. Recombinase circuit to select for Cre function. Cre recombinesthe loxP sites to delete the polyA terminator signal, allowingtranscription of AdProt downstream. FIG. 41B. tRNA/amino-acyl tRNAsynthetase circuit to select for synthetases that can charge amber stopcodon tRNAs. Only if the synthetase charges a tRNA with an amber stopanticodon will the premature stop codon in AdProt be suppressed,allowing translation of the full length gene.

FIG. 42. Testing diverse selection circuits. Cells were transfected witheither the recombinase circuit, amino-acyl tRNA synthetase circuit withthe relevant tRNAs, or a constitutive AdProt positive control plasmid.Transfected cells were then infected with ΔAdProt.adenovirus carryingthe either relevant gene (Cre for the recombinase circuit, LeuRS for thesynthetase circuit), or a control gene (tTA). The infections wereallowed to progress for four days before they were harvested and titeredby flow cytometry. Titers are given in infectious units per milliliter.N.D.=not detected, and indicates that the titer of the control virusfell below the limit of detection (L.O.D.) and therefore could not beaccurately assessed.

FIG. 43. Screening positive BOI variants using an eGFP reporter gene.(i) An adenovirus encoding an evolving BOI that is deleted for theadenoviral polymerase (AdPol) infects an engineered reporter cell line.(ii) Ectopically-expressed EP-Pol generates a mutational library of BOIvariants. (iii) Functional BOI variants can induce eGFP expression,while (iv) nonfunctional variants cannot. (v) FACS is performed to sortcells expressing eGFP, and thus containing functional BOI variants. (vi)The functional variants are passaged for amplification and the nextround of sorting.

FIG. 44. tTA-induced eGFP expression in the reporter cell line. Reportercells were co-transfected with tTA-expressing and eCFP-expressingplasmids and transfected cells were analyzed for eGFP expression by flowcytometry. PE fluorescence is shown on the y-axis to assessautofluorescence.

FIGS. 45A-45B. Enrichment of adenoviruses encoding positive BOI variantsusing FACS. FIG. 45A. Experimental setup for the enrichment experiment.tTA_(wt).mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus andtTA_(mut).mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus were mixed at a ratio of 1:10 andused to infect reporter cells. Cells were sorted on both mCherryfluorescence and eGFP fluorescence to sort for infected, induced cells.Following the sort, the resulting adenovirus was amplified, and used toinfect reporter cells again to analyze the enrichment of eGFP induction.FIG. 45B. Density plots of the enrichment experiment for tTA_(mut).mCherry. ΔAdPol.adenovirus, tTA_(wt).mCherry. ΔAdPol.adenovirus, the1:10 mixture before enrichment, and the 1:10 mixture after enrichment,in order from left to right. The level of adenovirus-induced eGFPinduction was determined by dividing the number of infected cellsexpressing eGFP (Q2) by the total number of infected cells.

FIGS. 46A-46D. Resazurin assay to assess acute toxicity of common tissueculture antibiotics. HEK293A cells were treated for two days with eitherG418 (FIG. 46A), puromycin (FIG. 46B), blasticidin (FIG. 46C), orhygromycin (FIG. 46D), and cell viability was analyzed by resazurinfluorescence.

FIGS. 47A-47B. Time-course of antibiotic-mediated inhibition ofadenoviral infection. HEK293A cells expressing wild-type AdPol wereinfected with RFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus and treated with either a)puromycin, or b) blasticidin at various time points post-infection(h.p.i.=hours post-infection). After 2 days, the infections wereharvested and titered by flow cytometry. Titers are given in infectiousunits per milliliter (IU/mL), defined as the volume of adenoviralsupernatant required to induce fluorescence in a cell as analyzed byflow cytometry. Dashed line represents the limit of detection (L.O.D) ofthe assay. Titers below this limit are inaccurate due to the percentageof infected cells being below the 1% error threshold of flow cytometry.

FIGS. 48A-48D. tTA-induced resistance to antibiotic mediated inhibitionof adenoviral infection. Either wild-type AdPol cells, TRE3G.puroRcells, or TRE3G.blastR cells were infected with ΔAdPol.adenovirusencoding either tTA (+tTA) or RFP (−tTA). Ten hours post-infection,wild-type AdPol cells were treated with either puromycin (FIG. 48A) or(FIG. 48B) blasticidin, TRE3G.puroR cells were treated with puromycin(FIG. 48C), and TRE3G.blastR cells were treated with blasticidin (FIG.48D). After 2, days, the infections were harvested and titered by flowcytometry. Titers are given in infectious units per milliliter (IU/mL),defined as the volume of adenoviral supernatant required to inducefluorescence in a cell as analyzed by flow cytometry. Dashed linerepresents the limit of detection (L.O.D) of the assay. Titers belowthis limit are inaccurate owing to the percentage of infected cellsbeing below the 1% error threshold of flow cytometry.

FIG. 49. Enrichment of adenoviruses encoding positive BOI variants byantibiotic selection. TRE3G.blastR cells were infected with a 1:10mixture of ΔAdPol.adenovirus encoding either tTA (+tTA) or CFP (−tTA)and treated with blasticidin 10 h post-infection. Two dayspost-infection, adenoviruses were harvested and titered by flowcytometry. Titers are given in infectious units per milliliter (IU/mL),defined as the volume of adenoviral supernatant required to inducefluorescence in a cell as analyzed by flow cytometry. Dashed linerepresents the limit of detection (L.O.D) of the assay. Titers belowthis limit are inaccurate due to the percentage of infected cells beingbelow the 1% error threshold of flow cytometry.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Our limited understanding of the relationship between a gene's primarysequence and a protein's three-dimensional structure/function severelylimits our ability to rationally design genes and proteins. Platformsthat harness the power of directed evolution offer an alternativestrategy. By mimicking nature's processes of mutagenesis,screening/selection, and amplification, scientists have created newbiomolecules with a diverse array of functions (Amold F. H., Acc. Chem.Res. 1998 Feb. 28; 31(3):125-31).

While directed evolution is a powerful methodology, virtually allcurrent directed evolution platforms are limited to mutating andselecting for biomolecule function either in test tubes, bacteria, oryeast (FIG. 1). Most of these systems require discrete steps formutagenesis, screening/selection, and amplification, which can takeweeks in order to do a single round of directed evolution. Moreover,biomolecules created in these simple systems often fail to function whenthey are transferred to more complex metazoan systems, and somedesirable functions are too reliant on metazoan biology for scientiststo be able to design valid selection schemes in simpler organisms or ina test tube.

The principal alternative approach—directed evolution by somatichypermutation—relies on the tedious screening of positive variants byfluorescence-assisted cell sorting (FACS) and requires at least a weekfor a single round of directed evolution because of the slow growth rateof metazoan cells (Wang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2004 Nov. 30;101(48):16745-49; Das et al., J. Biol. Chem. 2004 Apr. 30;279(18):18776-82). Both the FACS approach to screening and the slowcellular growth rate significantly limit the size of the library thatcan be effectively screened and amplified using directed evolution bysomatic hypermutation.

Consequently, there is a great need for a robust, generalizable directedevolution platform in metazoan cells. Indeed, biomedical research andclinical applications generally rely on biomolecules functioning in suchsystems. While there have been a few attempts at creating platforms fordirected evolution in human cells, these systems are either very limitedin their utility or suffer from “cheating” mechanisms (e.g.,non-specific mutation of the host cell genome that overcomes theselective evolutionary pressure) that can subvert selection (Wang etal., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2004 Nov. 30; 101(48):16745-49; Das etal. J. Biol. Chem. 2004 Apr. 30; 279(18): 18776-82).

Described herein are methods of performing continuous directed evolutionthat overcome many of the limitations of existing systems. First, thesemethods facilitate directed evolution in metazoan cells, including humancells. Second, these methods rely on the rapid replication of DNAviruses, such as adenovirus, which enable rapid library amplificationand multiple rounds of directed evolution within a week—significantlyfaster than other approaches for continuous directed evolution andsomatic hypermutation approaches. Third, these methods generallyfacilitate the testing of library sizes several orders of magnitudelarger than current screening-based approaches. Indeed, performing themethods described herein on cells in suspension culture allowscontinuous directed evolution at bioreactor scale. Fourth, these methodsare much less prone to cheating selection because they do not involvethe mutation of the host cell genome. Finally, the continuous nature ofthe platform for performing continuous directed evolution enablesmultiplexing directed evolution experiments with ease.

Taken together, the continuous nature of the system, the selection basedevolution approach, and the rapid amplification of the evolving DNAviruses combine to make a highly scalable platform for directedevolution in metazoan cells. By providing a robust, generalizableapproach to directed evolution in metazoan cells, this methodology hassignificant potential for guiding the design of therapeutics, not justdirectly developing them. For example, the methodologies describedherein enable researchers to study how proto-oncogenes evolve on thepath to cancer or in response to chemotherapeutics. Such experiments areextremely insightful to design of drugs against oncogene targets (e.g.,the directed evolution of monobodies that inhibit oncogenes).

Disclosed herein are compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurringcomponents of a continuous directed evolution system. As used herein,the term “continuous directed evolution system” refers to a platformthat facilitates the seamless integration of mutagenesis,screening/selection, and amplification of biomolecules in anuninterrupted cycle. As used herein, the term “engineered, non-naturallyoccurring” refers to compositions (e.g., molecules, organisms orbioparticles) that do not exist naturally, but that have been modifiedin a laboratory setting. As such, these compositions arise from humaninnovation. In some embodiments, the organism or bioparticle (e.g.,virus) comprises a modified genome. The term “modified genome,” as usedherein, refers to a non-natural genome, wherein the natural genome hasbeen altered or edited by a polynucleic acid integration or deletion. Asused herein, the term “integration” refers to instances in whichextrinsic genetic material is added to a natural genome. As used herein,the term “deletion” refers to instances in which intrinsic geneticmaterial is removed from a natural genome. In some embodiments, amodified genome comprises a replacement or substitution, wherein thereplacement or substitution comprises deletion and integration ofsimilar genetic material. Various means of performing genomemodification are known to those with skill in the art and include, butare not limited to, recombinant cloning, homologous recombination, andnonhomologous end-joining and may involve the use of engineerednucleases such as zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator likeeffector nucleases, and/or CRISPR/Cas nucleases.

As used herein, the term “polynucleic acid” refers to a string ofnucleotides linked together via phosphodiester bonds. Nucleotides comein a variety of forms which are known to those having skill in the art.The term “polynucleic acid sequence,” as used herein, refers to thesequence of nucleotides in a polynucleic acid molecule. In someembodiments, a polynucleic acid is a single-stranded DNA (i.e., ssDNA).In other embodiments, a polynucleic acid is a double-stranded DNA (i.e.,dsDNA). In other embodiments, a polynucleic acid is a single-strandedRNA (i.e., ssRNA). In yet other embodiments, a polynucleic acid is adouble-stranded RNA (i.e., dsRNA). In still other embodiments, apolynucleic acid is a double-stranded hybrid of a ssDNA and a ssRNA.

In one aspect, compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurring DNAviruses are provided. In some embodiments, the composition of theengineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus comprises a modified viralgenome, wherein the modified viral genome comprises (a) an integrationof at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of atranscribable gene of interest, (b) a deletion of the sequence encodingfor the viral DNA polymerase, and (c) a deletion of at least onesequence encoding for a protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles.

The term “DNA virus” refers to a group of viruses whose genetic materialis in the form of DNA. A DNA virus may possess a genome that isdouble-stranded DNA or a genome that is single-stranded DNA. Examples ofDNA viruses are known to those having skill in the art, and include butare not limited to viruses of the families Adenoviridae, Ascoviridae,Ampullaviridae, Anelloviridae, Asfarviridae, Baculoviridae,Bidnaviridae, Corticoviridae, Circoviridae, Geminiviridae,Genomoviridae, Herpesviridae, Inoviridae, Iridoviridae,Lipothrixviridae, Microviridae, Nanoviridae, Nimaviridae, Papovaviridae,Phycodnaviridae, Pleolipoviridae, Polydnaviridae, Poxviridae,Parvoviridae, Spiraviridae, and Tectiviridae.

In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virusis an engineered, non-naturally occurring adenovirus. The term“adenovirus,” as used herein, refers to a family of non-envelopedicosahedral nucleocapsid viruses that contain a double-stranded DNAgenome. Adenoviruses are frequently used to deliver genes into humancells for biological study (Benihoud et al., Curr. Opin. Biotechnol.1999 October; 10(5)440-47). The adenovirus genome encodes for a DNApolymerase (i.e., an adenoviral DNA polymerase) that is responsible forreplicating the genome independent of the host machinery. Importantly,unlike VSV and other retroviruses, adenovirus is a lytic virus, meaningany infected cells are killed at the conclusion of the viral replicationcycle. This removes infected cells from culture and significantlyreduces the possibility of selection subversion.

In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurring adenovirusis derived from an adenovirus selected from the genera consisting ofAtadenovirus, Aviadenovirus, Ichtadenovirus, Mastadenovirus, andSiadenovirus. In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturallyoccurring adenovirus is derived from a Mastadenovirus adenovirus. Insome embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurring adenovirus isa human adenovirus selected from the group consisting of HAdV-A, HAdV-B,HAdV-C, HAdV-D, HAdV-E, HAdV-F, and HAdV-G. Examples of humanadenoviruses within these groups are known to those having skill in theart and include, but are not limited to, HAdV1, HAdV2, HAdV3, HAdV4,HAdV5, HAdV6, HAdV7, HAdV8, HAdV9, HAdV10, HAdV11, HAdV12, HAdV13,HAdV14, HAdV15, HAdV16, HAdV17, HAdV18, HAdV19, HAdV20, HAdV21, HAdV22,HAdV23, HAdV24, HAdV25, HAdV26, HAdV27, HAdV28, HAdV29, HAdV30, HAdV31,HAdV32, HAdV33, HAdV34, HAdV35, HAdV36, HAdV36, HAdV38, HAdV39, HAdV40,HAdV41, HAdV42, HAdV43, HAdV44, HAdV45, HAdV46, HAdV47, HAdV48, HAdV49,HAdV50, HAdV51, HAdV52, HAdV53, HAdV54, HAdV55, HAdV56, and HAdV57. Insome embodiments, an engineered, non-naturally occurring adenovirus isderived from an HAdV-C adenovirus selected from the group consisting ofHAd2 and HAd5. In some embodiments, the non-naturally occurringadenovirus is derived from HAd2.

The term “protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles,” as used herein, refers to protein, whose absence from a hostcell infected with a DNA virus (or absence in its native form),decreases the generation of infectious DNA virus particles by at least25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% or 100% relative togeneration of infectious particles in the presence of protein (orpresence in its native form). Methods of measuring and comparing viralparticle infectivity are known to those with skill in the art, andinclude, but are not limited to, comparisons of plaque forming units(pfu), multiplicity of infection (moi), and TCID50. Proteins that arenecessary for the generation of infectious DNA virus particles are knownto those having skill in the art. For example, those of adenovirusinclude, but are not limited to the adenoviral protease, adenoviralfiber protein, pVI, and E2A. In some embodiments, the at least onesequence encoding for a protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles is not the sequence of the adenoviralfiber protein. In some embodiments, the at least one sequence encodingfor a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles comprises the sequence encoding for the adenoviral protease.

The terms, “gene of interest” or “biomolecule of interested” are usedinterchangeably and refer to any DNA sequence, or polynucleic acidmolecule or protein molecule encoded by the DNA sequence, that one seeksto evolve. For example, in some embodiments, the gene of interest (orbiomolecule of interest) is the sequence of a programming region (i.e.,does not code for an RNA; e.g., a promoter). In other embodiments, thegene of interest (or biomolecule of interest) comprises a DNA sequencethat can be transcribed or is “transcribable.” As used herein, the terms“transcribed” and “transcription” refer to the process in which aparticular segment of DNA is copied into RNA.

In some embodiments, the gene of interest (or biomolecule of interest)comprises the sequence of a non-coding RNA (i.e., does not code for aprotein). For example, in some embodiments the sequence of the gene ofinterest encodes the sequence of an RNA selected form the listconsisting of rRNA, tRNA, tmRNA, snRNA, snoRNA, scaRNA, gRNA, RNase P,RNase MRP, antisense RNA, crRNA, IncRNA, miRNA, piRNA, siRNA, and shRNA.Other forms of non-coding RNA are known to those having skill in theart.

In other embodiments, the gene of interest (or biomolecule of interest)encodes the sequence of a mRNA that can be translated. The terms“translation” or “translated” refer to the process in which a particularmRNA is decoded to generate a polypeptide or protein. As used herein,the terms “polypeptide” or protein” refer to a string of amino acidslinked together via amide bonds. Amino acids come in a variety of formswhich are known to those having skill in the art. The term “amino acidsequence,” as used herein, refers to the sequence of amino acids in aprotein or a polypeptide.

In another aspect, compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurringmetazoan cells are provided. In some embodiments, the engineered,non-naturally occurring metazoan cells comprise a modified genome,wherein the modified genome comprises (a) an integration of apolynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of an error-prone DNAvirus DNA polymerase, and (b) an integration of at least one polynucleicacid sequence comprising a sequence encoding for an expressible protein,wherein said expressible protein is necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles.

The term, “metazoan,” as used herein, refers to animals that aremulticellular, mitochondrial eukaryotes. In some embodiments, anengineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cell is derived froma metazoan cell that is susceptible to DNA virus infection in themetazoan cell's native state. In other embodiments, the metazoan cellhas been modified so as to facilitate the infection of the cell by a DNAvirus.

In some embodiments, an engineered, non-naturally occurring livingmetazoan cell is derived from the group consisting of a human, mouse,rat, cat, dog, pig, guinea pig, hamster, sheep, macaque, and chimpanzeecell. In some embodiments, the engineered, non-naturally occurringliving metazoan cell is derived from a human cell line. In someembodiments, the human cell line is an E1-transcomplementing cell line.Examples of E1-transcomplementing cell lines are known to those withskill in the art. In some embodiments, the human cell line is HEK-293.In some embodiments, the non-naturally occurring living metazoan cellsare in suspension.

As used herein, the term “error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase” refersto a native virus DNA polymerase has an increased error rate whenexposed to certain conditions. For example, the addition of a smallmolecule may increase the error-rate of a DNA polymerase. Alternatively,the co-expression of an interacting protein may increase the error-rateof a DNA polymerase. The term “error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase”also refers to an engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA polymerase inwhich mutations have been introduced into the sequence of the DNApolymerase, wherein said mutations increase the error rate of the DNApolymerase. The term “error-prone” refers to an error rate that ishigher than that of the native form of the DNA virus DNA polymerase inits native conditions by at least 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%,80%, 90%, 95% or 100%. Methods of measuring the error rate of a DNApolymerase are known to those having skill in the art.

In some embodiments, the sequence of an error-prone DNA virus DNApolymerase is the sequence of an error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase.In some embodiments, the sequence of the error-prone adenoviralpolymerase sequence is a non-natural sequence derived from a sequencesselected from the group consisting of the HAd2 polymerase sequence andthe HAd5 polymerase sequence or a sequence having about 50%, 60%, 70%,75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99%identity to at least a portion of the sequence of the HAd1 polymerase orHAd5 polymerase, wherein the portion of the sequence comprises about30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%,96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% of the native HAd1 polymerase or HAd5 polymerasesequence. In some embodiments, the sequence of a DNA viral DNApolymerase is connected to another sequence, wherein expression andtranslation of the sequences generates a fused protein. In someembodiments, the sequence of the DNA viral DNA polymerase is connectedto a sequence that facilitates expression of the DNA polymerase. In someembodiments, the sequence of the DNA viral DNA polymerase is expressedconstitutively. In other embodiments, the sequence of the DNA viral DNApolymerase is expressed conditionally.

In some embodiments, the non-natural adenoviral polymerase sequence isderived from the HAd5 polymerase sequence. In some embodiments, thenon-natural polymerase sequence derived from the HAd5 polymerasesequence comprises the HAd5 polymerase sequence with at least onemutation selected from the group consisting of T286I, N417A, F421Y,S506T, V585A, and D827A. In some embodiments the HAd5 polymerasesequence is SEQ ID NO: 27.

In some embodiments, the sequence encoding for a protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles is not the sequence ofthe adenoviral fiber protein. In some embodiments, the sequence encodingfor a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles is the sequence of the adenoviral protease or a sequencehaving about 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%,96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% identity to at least a portion of the sequence ofthe adenoviral protease, wherein the portion of the sequence comprisesabout 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%,95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% of the native adenoviral protease sequence.In some embodiments, the sequence of the adenoviral protease isconnected to another sequence, wherein expression and translation of thesequences generates a fused protein. In some embodiments, the sequenceof the adenoviral protease is connected to a sequence that facilitatesexpression of the adenoviral protease. For example, in some embodiments,the sequence of the adenoviral protease is connected to a tripartiteleader sequence.

Other terms describing compositions of engineered, non-naturallyoccurring metazoan cells (e.g., “protein necessary for adenovirusinfection”) carry the same meanings as those described above describingcompositions of engineered, non-naturally occurring adenoviruses.

In another aspect, compositions of engineered, non-naturally occurringeukaryotic cells are provided, for example producer cells, mutatorcells, and selector cells. As used herein, the term “producer cell”refers to a metazoan cell that expresses: (i) a wild-type viralpolymerase and (ii) a protein necessary for the production of infectiousDNA virus particles. In some embodiments, the producer cellconstitutively expresses the wild-type viral polymerase and/or theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles.In other embodiments, the producer cell inducibly expresses thewild-type viral polymerase and/or the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles. In some embodiments, thewild-type viral polymerase is AdPol. In some embodiments, the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles isAdProt. Through trans-complementation, producer cells infected with anengineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus described hereinfacilitate production of nascent adenoviruses containing the necessarydeletions and the gene encoding the gene of interest/biomolecule ofinterest.

The term “mutator cell” as used herein, refers to a metazoan cell thatexpresses: (i) a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles and (ii) an error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase. Insome embodiments, the mutator cell constitutively expresses theerror-prone polymerase and/or the protein necessary for the productionof infectious DNA virus particles. In other embodiments, the mutatorcell inducibly expresses the error-prone viral polymerase and/or theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles.In some embodiments, the error-prone viral polymerase is EP-Pol. In someembodiments, the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles is AdProt. Mutator cells infected with an engineered,non-naturally occurring DNA virus described herein facilitate productionof a diverse library prior to imparting selection on an evolving gene ofinterest/biomolecule of interest.

As used herein, the term “selector cell” refers to a metazoan cell that(i) expresses a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles and an error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase and that(ii) couples expression and/or function of the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles with the evolving gene ofinterest/biomolecule of interest. The cell line construction of selectorcells allows one to perform evolution in a near continuous process bysimply passaging the virus on the selector cells. In some embodiments,the selector cell constitutively expresses the error-prone polymeraseand/or the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles. In other embodiments, the selector cell inducibly expressesthe error-prone viral polymerase and/or the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles. In some embodiments, theerror-prone viral polymerase is EP-Pol. In some embodiments, the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles isAdProt.

Also disclosed herein are methods of performing continuous directedevolution using the components described above. In some embodiments, amethod of performing continuous directed evolution of a polynucleic acidsequence is described, wherein said polynucleic acid sequence comprisesthe sequence of at least one gene of interest, said method comprisinginfecting engineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells(i.e., selector cells) with at least one engineered, non-naturallyoccurring DNA virus, wherein: (a) the at least one engineered,non-naturally occurring DNA virus comprises a modified genome, whereinthe modified genome comprises an integration of at least one polynucleicacid sequence comprising the sequence of a transcribable gene ofinterest, a deletion of the sequence encoding for the viral DNApolymerase, a deletion of at least one sequence encoding for a proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles; (b) theengineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells (i.e.,selector cells) comprise modified genomes, wherein each modified genomecomprises an integration of a polynucleic acid sequence comprising asequence of an error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase, an integration ofat least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence encodingfor the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles in (a) under the control of a functionally-coupled promoter,such as a transcriptionally-coupled promoter; and (c) the generation ofinfectious DNA viruses by the engineered, non-naturally occurring livingmetazoan cells infected with the at least one engineered, non-naturallyoccurring DNA virus is dependent upon the evolution of the at least onepolynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of the transcribablegene of interest in (a), wherein said evolution is driven by theerror-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase encoded by the polynucleic acidsequence of (b).

In some embodiments, the method comprises infecting engineered,non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells (i.e., producer cells)with at least one engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus,wherein: (a) the at least one engineered, non-naturally occurring DNAvirus comprises a modified genome, wherein the modified genome comprisesan integration of at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising thesequence of a transcribable gene of interest, a deletion of the sequenceencoding for the viral DNA polymerase, and a deletion of at least onesequence encoding for a protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles; and (b) the engineered, non-naturallyoccurring living metazoan cells (i.e., producer cells) comprise modifiedgenomes, wherein each modified genome comprises an integration of apolynucleic acid sequence comprising a sequence of a wild-type DNA virusDNA polymerase and an integration of at least one polynucleic acidsequence comprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles in (a) under thecontrol of a functionally-coupled promoter, such as atranscriptionally-coupled promoter, wherein infection of thenon-naturally occurring living metazoan cells (i.e., producer cells)facilitates production of nascent adenoviruses containing the necessarydeletions and the gene encoding the gene of interest of interest.

In some embodiments, the method comprises infecting engineered,non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells (i.e., mutator cells) withat least one engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus, wherein: (a)the at least one engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus comprisesa modified genome, wherein the modified genome comprises an integrationof at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of atranscribable gene of interest, a deletion of the sequence encoding forthe viral DNA polymerase, a deletion of at least one sequence encodingfor a protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles; and (b) the engineered, non-naturally occurring livingmetazoan cells (i.e., mutator cells) comprise modified genomes, whereineach modified genome comprises an integration of a polynucleic acidsequence comprising a sequence of an error-prone DNA virus DNApolymerase and an integration of at least one polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles in (a) under the control ofa functionally-coupled promoter, such as a transcriptionally-coupledpromoter, wherein said infection facilitates the production of a diverselibrary prior to imparting selection on an evolving gene of interest.

In some embodiments, the method comprises sequentially infectingproducer cells, mutator cells, and selector cells. See, for example,Example 18.

In some embodiments, the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles in (b) is the same asthe sequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles in (a). In other embodiments, thesequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles in (b) is different from the sequenceencoding for the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles in (a). For example, the integrated sequence of theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA particles in theengineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells may comprisethe functional sequence of the deleted sequence of the protein necessaryfor the production of infectious DNA particles in the at least oneengineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus. The term “functionalsequence” refers to a minimal sequence of a protein that is required forthe protein to carry out its desired function. For example, anengineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus genome may comprise adeletion of the entire adenoviral protease sequence and an engineerednon-natural metazoan cell genome may comprise an integration of thesequence of a functional protease domain of the adenoviral proteasesequence (or a fusion protein containing the functional proteasedomain). Alternatively, an engineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virusgenome may comprise a deletion of a segment of a adenoviral proteasesequence (rendering the protein produced nonfunctional) and anengineered non-natural metazoan cell genome may comprise an integrationthe entire sequence of the adenoviral protease. Additional permutationsof these examples would be clear to one having skill in the art.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises administering to themetazoan cells an inhibitor of the protein necessary for the productionof infectious DNA viral particles so as to expand the dynamic range ofselection pressure on the cells. For example, in some embodiments theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA viral particlesis the adenoviral protease and the inhibitor is vinyl sulfone.

In some embodiments, the sequence of the viral DNA polymerase in (a) isthe same as the error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase in (b). In otherembodiments, the sequence of the viral DNA polymerase in (a) isdifferent from the error-prone DNA virus DNA polymerase.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises screening theengineered, non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells for highlyinfectious DNA virus particles. Various methods of screeningadenoviruses for highly infectious viral particles are known to thosehaving skill in the art. See e.g., Examples 26-27.

As used herein, the term “infecting” refers to exposing the engineered,non-naturally occurring living metazoan cells to engineered,non-naturally occurring DNA viruses under conditions that allow thecellular uptake of the modified genome of the engineered, non-naturallyoccurring DNA viruses.

As used herein, “functionally-coupled” refers to a direct or indirectfunctional interaction of the sequence encoding for the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA viral particles thatallows for expression, under certain conditions, of the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA viral particles. In someembodiments, the functional coupling facilitates constitutiveexpression. In other embodiments, the functional coupling facilitatesconditional expression. Functional coupling can include transcriptionalcoupling, protein or polynucleic acid stability coupling, subcellulartrafficking coupling, folding coupling, translational coupling,post-translational modification coupling, protein or polynucleic aciddegradation coupling, and protein sequestration coupling. Thus,interactions between a polynucleic acid encoding for the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA viral particles or theprotein itself and other molecules that regulate or modulate (increaseor decrease) transcription, protein or polynucleic acid stability,subcellular trafficking, folding, translation, post-translationalmodification, protein or polynucleic acid degradation, and/or proteinsequestration can be used in the evolution processes described herein.

As used herein, the term “transcriptionally-coupled” refers to aninteraction between the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA viral particles and a promotersequence, wherein the interaction allows for expression of the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA viral particles. In someembodiments, the transcriptional coupling facilitates constitutiveexpression. In other embodiments, the transcriptional couplingfacilitates conditional expression.

As used herein, the term “evolution” refers to the introduction of atleast one selectable genetic mutation (e.g., insertions, deletions,substitutions, etc.) in the genome of an organism or bioparticle. Asused herein, the term “dependent upon” refers to an interaction betweenthe process of evolution and the enzymatic activity of the error-proneDNA polymerase. In this case, the term refers to the introduction ofmutations during replication of the genome by the error-prone DNApolymerase (i.e., the continuous evolution system design is such thatthe DNA sequence encoding for the gene of interest is replicated by theerror-prone DNA polymerase).

The term “unevolved,” as used herein, refers to state in which thesequence of a gene of interest is unable to perform a desired function(e.g., generate a protein that can induce expression, inhibitexpression, cleave a polypeptide a desired location, or cleave apolynucleic acid at a desired location or overcome a translationalroadblock). In some embodiments, the unevolved state of the gene ofinterest is the gene of interest's native sequence (e.g., the nativesequence of a protein coding gene). In other embodiments, the unevolvedstate of the gene of interest is a non-native sequence.

In some embodiments, at least one of the at least one polynucleic acidsequences comprising the sequence of a transcribable gene of interest inis a protein coding sequence, wherein expression and translation of theprotein coding sequence generates at least one protein product.

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,induces the expression of the at least one polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles; however, the induction isinhibited by the concomitant administration of an agent that decreasesthe capability of the at least one protein product of inducingexpression of the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles. In this way, a protein can be evolved to overcome theinhibitory effect of the agent. For example, at least two proteinproducts, when unevolved, may induce said expression, wherein aprotein-protein interaction between the at least two protein products isnecessary for the induction of expression; however, the agent decreasesthe ability the proteins to interact. In another example, the at leastone protein, when unevolved, may induce said expression by directlybinding to the transcriptionally-coupled promoter; however, the agentdecreases the ability of the protein to bind the promoter. Additionally,the at least one protein, when unevolved, may induce said expression byinhibiting the binding of at least one transcriptional inhibitor proteinto the transcriptionally-coupled promoter. In such instances, theinhibition of binding may be achieved through a protein-proteininteraction between the at least one protein and the at least onetranscriptional inhibitor protein or by inhibiting the expression of theat least one transcriptional inhibitor protein (here, the agent maydecrease the ability of the proteins to interact or decrease the abilityof the transcriptional inhibitor protein to bind the promoter).Additional permutations of these examples would be clear to one havingskill in the art. As used herein, the term “an agent that decreases thecapability” refers to an agent, whose presence decrease the ability of aprotein produced from transcription and translation of the sequence ofthe gene of interest to induce expression of the sequence encoding forthe protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles by least 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% or100% relative to the level of expression in the absence of the agent.Methods of measuring expression are known to those having skill in theart.

In other embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,inhibits the expression of the at least one polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles. For example, at least twoprotein products, when unevolved, may inhibit said expression, wherein aprotein-protein interaction between the at least two protein products isnecessary for the inhibition of expression and at least one of the atleast two protein products directly binds to thetranscriptionally-coupled promoter that drives expression of thesequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles. In another example, the at least oneprotein, when unevolved, may inhibit said expression by directly bindingto the transcriptionally-coupled promoter. Additionally, the at leastone protein, when unevolved, may inhibit said expression by inhibitingthe binding of at least one transcriptional activator protein to thetranscriptionally-coupled promoter. In such instances, the inhibition ofbinding may be achieved through a protein-protein interaction betweenthe at least one protein and the at least one transcriptional inhibitorprotein or by decreasing the expression of the at least onetranscriptional inhibitor protein. Additional permutations of theseexamples would be clear to one having skill in the art.

In other embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,cannot induce the expression of the at least one polynucleic acidsequence comprising the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles; however, the at leastone protein product, when evolved, can induce said expression. Forexample, the at least one protein product, when unevolved, may not bindto the transcriptionally-coupled promoter of the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA virus particles. Alternatively, thatthe at least one protein product, when unevolved, may bind to thetranscriptionally-coupled promoter of the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles but fail to induce itsexpression. The phrase “cannot induce the expression,” as used herein,refers to a state in which the unevolved gene of interest increases theexpression levels of the sequence encoding for the protein necessary forproduction of infectious DNA virus particles by less than 5%. Additionalpermutations of these examples would be clear to one having skill in theart.

The term “transcriptional activator protein,” as used herein, refers toan agent that induces the expression of a target sequence by binding tothe promoter of the target sequence. The term “transcriptional inhibitorprotein” as used herein, refers to an agent that inhibits the expressionof a target sequence by binding to the promoter of the target sequence.

As used herein, the phrases “induces the expression,” “inducing theexpression,” “inhibits the expression,” and “inhibiting the expression”refer to changes in expression levels (increase, increases, decreases,and decreases, respectively) of at least 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%,75%, 80%, 90%, 95% or 100% relative to the expression level in theabsence of the indicated factor (e.g., the transcriptional activatorprotein, the transcriptional inhibitor protein, or the unevolved gene ofinterest). Methods of measuring expression are known to those havingskill in the art.

The term “decreasing the binding,” as used herein, refers to a decreasein the binding of the transcriptional activator protein or thetranscriptional inhibitor protein to the transcriptionally-coupledpromoter by least 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% or100% relative to the level of binding in the absence of the indicatedagent (e.g., a protein produced from the unevolved gene of interest).Methods of measuring promoter binding are known to those having skill inthe art.

In some embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,regulates the stability of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA viruses. For example, the at least one protein productmay cause the degradation of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA viruses via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway or thelysosomal proteolysis pathway.

In other embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,regulates the subcellular trafficking of the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA viruses. For example, in some embodiments,the at least one protein product sequesters the protein necessary forthe production of infectious DNA viruses in the nucleus or a subcellularorganelle. In still other embodiments, the at least one protein product,when unevolved, does not regulate the subcellular trafficking of theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA viruses; however,the at least one protein product, when evolved, can regulate saidtrafficking.

In other embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,regulates the folding of the protein necessary for the production of theinfectious DNA viruses. In other embodiments, the at least one proteinproduct, when evolved, regulates the folding of the protein necessaryfor the production of the infectious DNA viruses.

In other embodiments, the at least one protein product, when unevolved,regulates a post-translational modification of the protein necessary forthe production of the infectious DNA viruses. In other embodiments, theat least one protein product, when evolved, regulates apost-translational modification of the protein necessary for theproduction of the infectious DNA viruses. Examples of post-translationalmodifications are known to those having skill in the art.

In other embodiments, the sequence encoding for the protein necessaryfor the production of infectious DNA virus particles further comprisesthe sequence of an inhibitory tag, wherein the sequence of the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles and thesequence of the inhibitory tag are coupled, and wherein: (a) translationof the sequence comprising the sequence encoding for the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles and thesequence of the inhibitory tag generates a tagged protein; and (b)removal of inhibitory tag in (a) is dependent upon the evolution of theat least one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of thegene of interest.

As used herein, the term “inhibitory tag” refers to an agent that, whencoupled to a protein, decreases a desired function of that protein byleast 25%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% or 100% relativeto the function in the absence of the inhibitory tag. The term “coupled”as used herein refers to a physical interaction between inhibitory tagand the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles. The term “removal” as used herein refers to a decoupling ofthe inhibitory tag and the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles.

In some embodiments, the inhibitory tag is selected from the groupconsisting of a protein degradation tag or a protein sequestration tag.The term “protein degradation tag” refers to tag that when coupled tothe protein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virusparticles, stimulates degradation of the protein. Examples of proteindegradation tags are known to those having skill in the art. In someembodiments, the protein degradation tag is a degron tag. The term“protein sequestration tag” refers to tag that when coupled to theprotein necessary for the production of infectious DNA virus particles,sequesters the protein from the location where its desired function isperformed. For example, the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA virus particles can be sequestered in the nucleus or asubcellular organelle. Examples of protein sequestration tags are knownto those having skill in the art.

In some embodiments, the gene of interest is a protease. In someembodiments, the protease, when unevolved, is unable to cleave or removean inhibitory tag that is coupled to the protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles. Examples of proteases areknown to those of skill in the art.

In other embodiments, at least one of the at least one polynucleic acidsequences comprising the sequence of a transcribable gene of interest isthe sequence of a non-coding RNA. In some embodiments, the sequenceencoding for the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAvirus particles in (b)(ii) further comprises a premature stop codon inthe sequence encoding for the at least one protein necessary for theproduction of infectious DNA virus particles. In such embodiments, thegeneration of a functional protein necessary for production ofinfectious DNA virus particles via translation of mRNA produced bytranscription of the at least one polynucleic acid sequence comprisingthe sequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious viral particles is dependent upon the evolution of the atleast one polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of the geneof interest—that is integrated in the genome of the at least oneengineered, non-naturally occurring DNA virus.

In some embodiments, the sequence of the gene of interest comprises thesequence of a tRNA. The term “tRNA,” as used herein, refers to atransfer RNA, which is an adaptor molecule that serves as a link betweenthe nucleotide sequence of a mRNA and the amino acid sequence of aprotein. The sequences of tRNAs are known to those having skill in theart.

In some embodiments, the sequence of the gene of interest comprises thesequence of an aminoacyl tRNA synthetase. The term “aminoacyl tRNAsynthetase,” as used herein, refers to an enzyme that attaches theappropriate amino acid to its respective tRNA. The nucleotide and aminoacid sequences of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases are known to those havingskill in the art.

In some embodiments, a small molecule is added to the culture conditionsto increase selection stringency, wherein the small molecule decreasesthe functionality of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious DNA viral particles—that is integrated in the genome of theengineered, non-naturally occurring metazoan cells. As used herein, theterm “decreases the functionality” refers to a decrease in a desiredfunction of the protein necessary for the production of infectious DNAviral particles in the presence of a small molecule by least 25%, 30%,40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% or 100% relative to the functionof the protein in the absence of the small molecule.

EXAMPLES

Materials and Methods

Vectors and Cloning:

Primers:

Primers used in this study are listed in TABLE 1.

WT-Pol and EP-Pol vectors:

Lentiviral vectors containing WT-Pol and EP-Pol were a generous gift ofDr. Robert Hoeben (Leiden University).

cProt vector:

A 641 nt fragment containing adenoviral protease (prot) was amplifiedfrom the Ad5 genome and ligated into pTRE-Tight (Clontech) using SalIand XbaI. A 223 nt gene block containing the Ad5 tripartite leadersequence (TPL) was amplified with EcoRI and BamHI sites and inserteddirectly upstream of prot to form pTRE-Tight.TPL.Prot. From this vector,an 852 nt fragment containing TPL.Prot was amplified with NotI and XbaIsites, and inserted into pENTR1A (ThermoFisher). LR clonase II enzymemixture (ThermoFisher) was used to clone the TPL.Prot fragment intopLenti.CMV.Hygro (w117-1) (ThermoFisher).

iProt Vector:

TPL and Prot were amplified separately from pTRE-Tight.TPL.Prot usingtwo sets of primers and reassembled into pTRE-Tight to make a seamlessform of TPL.Prot, without an internal restriction enzyme site. TPL-Protwas amplified from pTRE-Tight.TPL.Prot, and assembled with NotI-digestedpLVX.Tight.Puro (Takara Biosciences) to form pLVX.Tight.TPL.Prot.Puro.

Adenoviral Constructs:

Adenoviral constructs were generated using ccdB recombineering inEscherichia coli, as previously published (Wang et al., Nucleic AcidRes. 2014 Jun. 12; 57(11): 4969-74). Briefly, aselectable/counterselectable cassette that expresses both a kanamycinresistance gene and the ccdB toxin is generated by PCR with primeroverhangs that introduce flanking 50 bp homology arms that target theregion of interest. The selectable/counterselectable cassette is theninserted into the region of interest by electroporating the PCR productinto cells carrying the adenoviral genome in a bacterial artificialchromosome (BAC) and expressing the λ red recombineering machinery.Cells that have inserted the selectable/counterselectable cassette intothe adenoviral genome BAC are selected for on LB agar plates containingkanamycin, which kills any cells that have not integrated theselectable/counterselectable cassette, and arabinose, which induces theexpression of ccdA to neutralize the ccdB toxin. Next a second cassettecontaining the desired changes and that has flanking 50 bp homology armstargeting the region of interest is generated by annealing oligos in thecase of a deletion or by PCR in the case of an insertion. The secondcassette is electroporated into the cells with theselectable/counterselectable cassette inserted into the region ofinterest and that are expressing the λ red recombineering machinery.Cells that replace the selectable/counterselectable cassette with thesecond cassette are selected for on LB agar plates containingchloramphenicol, which maintains the adenoviral genome BAC, and lacksarabinose such that ccdB is no longer neutralized and kills any cellsthat have not replaced the selectable/counterselectable marker.Modifications were confirmed by Sanger sequencing.

Generating Adenovirus from Transfection:

All adenoviruses were produced by transfecting a linearized vector intotheir corresponding trans-complementing cells (Δpol adenovirus on WT-Polcells, Δpol.Δprot adenoviruses on WT-Pol/cProt cells, etc.). 24 μg DNA,144 μL PEI, 1 mL OptiMEM (Gibco) were combined, incubated at RT for 15minutes, and then added to a confluent 15 cm plates of cProt cells (˜10million cells). Media was replaced 8 hours after transfection. Media wasreplaced every two or three days until plaques were observed, whichoccurred about three weeks after the transfection. Once plaques wereobserved, cytopathic effect was observed in all cells within five days.The virus was harvested by a freeze-thawing three times and centrifugingat >3,000 rpm for 10 minutes.

Cell Imaging:

A 6-well plate was seeded with 500,000 cells of iProt cells (EP-Pol andiProt vector). The next day, wells were infected with 10 uL of eitherTTA.Δpol.Δprot.mCherry or CFP.Δpol.Δprot adenovirus. Five days later,images were taken on an Olympus U-TB190 microscope.

Deep Sequencing of EP-Pol Passages:

TTA.Δpol.mCherry adenoviruses were passaged on WT-Pol and EP-Polexpressing cells for 10 passages. Viral DNA from all passages 1, 3, 5,and 10 was purified using a Nucleospin Virus Kit (Takara Bio). Sampleswere prepped for sequencing using the Nextera DNA Library Prep protocol(Illumina), and run on a MiSeq. Substitution scores were determined aspreviously described (Uil et al., Nucleic Acid Res. 2011 March;39(5):e30).

qPCR of Protease Expression:

6-well plates were seeded with 500,000 iProt cells in DMEM withTet-approved FBS (Takara Bio). The next day, cells were eithertransfected with TTA or an empty vector. 3 g DNA was transfected after a15-minute incubation with 18 μL PEI and 250 μL OptiMEM (Gibco). Themedia was removed after 8 hours and replaced with 2 mL DMEM withTet-approved FBS.

Three days post-transfection, the cells were harvested using the RNeasyRNA mini prep kit (Omega Bio-Tek). cDNA was made from the harvested RNAusing a reverse-transcription kit (Applied Biosciences), and added to a384-well plate along with SYBR Green (Kappa) and primers specific to theadenoviral protease gene in technical quadruplicate. The qPCR was run ina LightCycler 480 (Roche), and Cp values were calculated from theresultant amplification curves.

Passaging for TTA Evolution:

Viral Amplification and Diversification:

500 μL of the TTA.Δpol.Δprot adenovirus was amplified on cProt cellsthat expressed EP-Pol instead of WT-Pol, creating a diverse viralpopulation. After five days, cytopathic effect was observed in allcells. This amplified virus was harvested as described above.

Continuous Evolution Procedure:

Three 15 cm semiconfluent dishes of iProt cells (˜5 million cells) wereinfected with either 250, 500 or 1,000 μL of the amplified virus in thepresence of 1 ng/mL of doxycycline. Plates are monitored for plaquesevery day. If more than one plate shows a plaque on the same day, theplate with the lowest volume of virus added was used for the next roundof evolution.

The day after a plaque is observed, three 15 cm semiconfluent dishes ofiProt cells are infected in the presence of 1 ng/mL doxycycline. Thethree dishes are infected with 250, 500 or 1,000 μL of media from theprevious round's dish. 2 mL of media are saved in Eppendorf tubes andstored at −80 C for future analysis.

Dox Evolution Sequencing:

DNA was harvested from 200 μL of the media that was saved after eachround of evolution using a viral DNA prep kit. The region of DNAencompassing the CMV promoter and the TTA gene was PCR amplified from 1μL of the harvested DNA. The resulting PCR product was purified andprepared for Illumina sequencing through the Nextera DNA Library Prepprotocol (Illumina). Each position within the TTA gene and CMV promoterhad at least 1,000 reads.

Synthesis of the Adenovirus Protease Inhibitor:

The adenovirus protease inhibitor 12 was previously reported andsynthesized following a similar route (FIG. 17) (Grosche et al., Bioorg.Med. Chem. Lett. 2015 Feb. 1; 25(3): 438-43). Compound 8 was synthesizedusing a previously published protocol (FIG. 17) (Kathman et al., J. Med.Chem. 2014 Jun. 12; 57(11): 4969-74).

Adenovirus Selection Using the Adenovirus Protease Inhibitor:

293A cells were seeded at 106 cells/well in a 6-well dish.GFP-expressing adenoviruses were used to infect these cells (MOI=1), andthe protease inhibitor was added at various concentrations. Two dayslater, many of the samples showed signs of full CPE, and theadenoviruses were harvested as previously described. 293As were seededin a 96-well plate at 40,000 cells/well, and inhibitor treatedadenovirus samples were used to infect these wells at various dilutionsof supernatant (30 μL, 3 μL, 0.3 μL, or 0.03 μL). Cells were analyzedfor GFP fluorescence by flow cytometry on a BD LSR II analyzer, andviral titers were quantified in samples that fell in the linear range ofinfection (1 virion per cell).

TABLE 1 DNA primers used in this study. SEQ ID Primer NamePrimer Sequence NO: SalI.Prot Forward aaaaaaGGATCCACCATGGGCTCCAGTG 1XbaI.Prot Reverse aaaaaGTCGACttacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 2 EcoRI.TPLaaaaaaGCGGCCGCactctcttccgcatcg Forward 3 BamHI.TPLaaaaaaTCTAGAttacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag Reverse 4 NotI.TPL.ProtaaaaaaGCGGCCGCactctcttccgcatcg Forward 5 TPL Assemblyatcgcctggagaattcactctcttccgcatcgct Forward 6 TPL Assemblyctcactggagcccattgcgactgtgactggttag 7 Reverse TPL-Prot Forwardtggagaaggatccgcactctcttccgcatcgct 8 TPL-Prot Reverseatctagagccggcgcttacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 9 E1 kanccdBatacaaaactacataagacccccaccttatatattctttcccacccttaagccacgcccaCCCT 10Forward CATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E1 kanccdBaataagaggaagtgaaatctgaataattttgtgttactcatagcgcgtaataCCGCTCATTA 11Reverse GGCGGGC E1 CMV PromoteratacaaaactacataagacccccaccttatatattctttcccacccttaagccacgcccaCAGA 12Forward TATACGCGTTGACATTG E1 bGH polyAaataagaggaagtgaaatctgaataattttgtgttactcatagcgcgtaataGAAGCCATA 13 ReverseGAGCCCAC E4 kanccdBcaaaaaacccacaacttcctcaaatcgtcacttccgttttcccacgttacCCCTCATCAGT 14 ForwardGCCAACATAGTAAG E4 kanccdBagtaacttgtatgtgttgggaattgtagttttcttaaaatgggaagtgacCCGCTCATTAG 15 ReverseGCGGGC E4 SV40 PromotercaaaaaacccacaacttcctcaaatcgtcacttccgttttcccacgttacTTCTGTGGAAT 16 ForwardGTGTGTCAGTTAGGG E4 SV40 polyAagtaacttgtatgtgttgggaattgtagttttcttaaaatgggaagtgacCTCTAGCTAGA 17 ReverseGGTCGACGGTATAC Pol kanccdBtcccgcgcttcttggaactttacattgtgggccacaacatcaacggccctCCCTCATCAG 18 ForwardTGCCAACATAGTAAG Pol kanccdBggcacctcggaacggttgttaattacctgggcggcgagcacgatctcgtcCCGCTCATT 19 ReverseAGGCGGGC delPol oligogcgcggccttccggagcgaggtgtgggtgagcgcaaaggtgtccctgaccatgaccagcatga 20Forward agggcacgagctgcttcccaaaggcccccatccaag delPol oligocttggatgggggcctttgggaagcagctcgtgcccttcatgctggtcatggtcagggacacctttg 21Reverse cgctcacccacacctcgctccggaaggccgcgc Prot kanccdBggcaacgccacaacataaagaagcaagcaacatcaacaacagctgccgccCCCTCATC 22 ForwardAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG Prot kanccdBtacaaataaaagcatttgcctttattgaaagtgtctctagtacattatttCCGCTCATTAGG 23Reverse CGGGC delProt oligoggcaacgccacaacataaagaagcaagcaacatcaacaacagctgccgccaaataatgtacta 24Forward gagacactttcaataaaggcaaatgcttttatttgta delProt oligoTacaaataaaagcatttgcctttattgaaagtgtctctagtacattatttggcggcagctgttgttgat 25Reverse gttgcttgcttctttatgttgtggcgttgcc

Example 1. General Platform Design

All evolution platforms rely on genetic mutation. In nature, polymerasesserve as evolutionary drivers—DNA polymerases during DNA replication andRNA polymerases during RNA transcription. As such, many continuousdirected evolution platforms utilize error-prone polymerases.

Some polymerases, such as the RNA polymerases of RNA viruses, have highmutation rates in their native forms. In this regard, an RNA virus, suchas VSV, might be an ideal choice for a continuous directed evolutionplatform. However, methodologies employing an RNA virus would havecertain disadvantages. For example, enveloped RNA viruses aresignificantly less stable than non-enveloped viruses, such asadenovirus. This complicates the storage and manipulation of RNA viralstocks. Moreover, most RNA viruses tend to replicate poorly in cellculture under stringent selection conditions, such as those that arerequired for successful directed evolution. Finally, retroviral vectors,such as VSV, are budding viruses that leave the host cell intact andprone to continued infection. This increases the possibility thatviruses carrying maladaptive GOIs will cheat the system by infectingcells that were previously infected by viruses carrying adaptive GOIs(i.e., selection subversion). Consequently, it becomes very important toensure that the residence time of the host cells in an infecting cultureis as short as possible while still ensuring efficient viralreplication.

On the other hand, DNA virus, such as adenoviruses, would seem to be apoor choice for a continuous evolution platform. Unlike RNA viruses,adenoviruses, like most double-stranded DNA viruses, have mutation ratesthat are too low to create the library sizes necessary for successfuldirected evolution experiments (Risso-Ballester et al., PLoS Pathog.2004 Nov. 8; 12(11):e1006013). Thus, in their native forms/cultureconditions, adenoviruses would not be amenable to a continuous directedevolution platform. However, in other aspects, an adenovirus platformwould have various benefits relative to an RNA virus platform. First,adenovirus is lab friendly. It is frequently used to deliver genes intohuman cells for biological study (Benihoud et al., Curr. Opin.Biotechnol. 1999 October; 10(5)440-47). It is very robust and safe towork with, and carries its own DNA polymerase that is responsible forreplicating the adenoviral genome independent of the host machinery.Importantly, unlike VSV and other retroviruses, adenovirus is a lyticvirus, meaning any infected cells are killed at the conclusion of theviral replication cycle. This removes infected cells from culture andsignificantly reduces the possibility of selection subversion.

Here, adenovirus was utilized as a means to deliver and mutate a gene ofinterest (“GOI”) and to select for and amplify positive variants thatemerge. These methods rely upon an error-prone version of the adenoviralpolymerase, which was designed by combining two previously discoveredmutations that exhibit positive epistasis (Uil et al., Nucleic Acid Res.2011 March; 39(5):e30). The first mutation, F421Y, is in the exonucleasedomain of the polymerase and is hypothesized to reduce stabilization ofssDNA, thus reducing proofreading activity. The second mutation, D827A,is in the nucleotide binding site and is hypothesized to reducegeometric selection of the incoming nucleotide. Together, these twomutations comprise an error-prone adenoviral polymerase (termed EP-Pol)that mutates the adenoviral genome at a rate that is several orders ofmagnitude greater than the wild type adenoviral polymerase (FIGS. 3 and4). Importantly, EP-Pol is capable of generating gene libraries largeenough to perform directed evolution.

To avoid the possibility of EP-Pol mutating its own gene back to a lesserror-prone version, the adenoviral polymerase gene was deleted from theviral genome and integrated into a human HEK293-derived cell linecapable of expressing EP-Pol in trans (FIGS. 1, 5, and 6). In this way,the adenovirus functions as an orthogonal means of replication thatallows the gene of interest to be evolved in a metazoan cellularenvironment, without permitting selection subversion (cheating) thatcould occur due to mutating the host genome. In order to design theadenoviral vectors necessary to perform directed evolution in metazoancells, plasmid construction methodologies were optimized. Because of thelarge size of the adenoviral genome (36000 bp), making the targetedmutations needed to engineer the platform by traditional molecularbiology approaches was impossible. Therefore, lambda-red recombination,was used as a strategy to make designer adenoviral mutants (Mück-HauslM., et al, Nucleic Acid Res. 2015 Apr. 30; 43(8):e50).

Thus, constructs were created that allowed either the expression of thewild type polymerase (WT-Pol) or EP-Pol in trans in a humanHEK293-derived cell line (FIGS. 5 and 6). These cells were then infectedwith a GFP-expressing version of the Δpol-adenovirus. TheΔpol-adenoviruses only grew on cells expressing either WT-Pol or EP-Pol,indicating that Δpol-adenoviruses depend on the adenovirus polymerasebeing provided in trans (FIG. 7). By setting up this polymerasetrans-complementation system, adenovirus can be used as an orthogonalmeans of replication that allows a gene to be evolved in the metazoancellular environment, without permitting selection subversion (cheating)that could occur due to mutating the host genome. Fresh hosts are thusconstantly replenished during the course of an evolution experiment.

Various selection strategies were tested for directed evolution,including FACS-based screening and antibiotic selection—neither of whichyielded positive GOI variants. Instead, selection was accomplished inthis system by coupling positive GOI function to expression of a proteinnecessary for adenovirus infection (FIG. 1). For example, one can evolvea GOI based on coupling transcription of a selectable marker. However,there are many ways beyond a direct transcriptional couple in which onecan attain coupled selection in this system. For instance, one canemploy a translational couple in the directed evolution oftRNA/amino-acyl tRNA synthetase (aaRS) pairs (Liu and Schultz, Annu.Rev. Biochem., 2010; 79:413-44). This can be accomplished by couplingevolution of the tRNA/aarS pair to suppression of an amber stop codon inthe selectable marker (FIG. 18C). One can also evolve specificity ofproteases by fusing the selectable marker to a degron that the proteasehas to chop off (Dickinson et al., Nat. Commun., 2014 Oct. 30; 5:5352)or evolve a selectable marker to overcome a subcellular localizationsignal (FIGS. 18A and 18B). In this way, the GOI function is coupled toproper function of the selectable marker.

Here, an adenoviral gene that is vital to robust adenoviral infectionwas used as a selectable maker (Flint, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences,2001). Numerous adenoviral proteins were tested for their ability toimpart selection on an evolving GOI. Most adenoviral proteins that weretested in this system did not work for selection of an evolving GOI ininitial efforts (e.g., adenoviral fiber protein, pVI, and E2A) and somedid not work for selection of an evolving GOI even after extensiveefforts to optimize (i.e., fiber). However, one protein tested,adenoviral protease—important for both viral entry and viral maturation(Greber et al., J. EMBO 1996 Apr. 15; 15(8):1766-77; Baniecki et al., J.Biol. Chem. 2013 Jan. 18; 288(3):2081-91)—functioned well in thissystem. To demonstrate that adenovirus protease was required for viralinfection and can impart selection on an adenovirus, protease was stablyexpressed in the WT-Pol and EP-Pol cell lines (FIGS. 8 and 9). Thisconstruct contains a tripartite leader sequence, which facilitatedrobust expression throughout the adenoviral life cycle (Yueh andScnheider, Genes Dev., 2000 Feb. 15; 14(4):414-21). Adenoviral proteasewas then deleted from the genome of the Δpol-adenoviruses to makeΔpolΔprot-adenoviruses. The replication of the ΔpolΔprot-adenoviruseswas then tested on cell lines that express either polymerase and prot,polymerase alone, or neither protein. This demonstrated that only cellsthat expressed both polymerase and protease in trans can supportreplication of ΔpolΔprot-adenoviruses.

In order to couple expression of the adenoviral protease to the evolvingGOI, the gene was placed under control of an inducible promoter in thecarefully optimized EP-Pol cell line (FIG. 2). GOI variants that areable to induce expression of trans-complemented adenoviral proteaseresult in infectious virions, carrying the gene for the positivevariant. These viruses can then go on to infect new cells in acontinuous directed evolution cycle. However, if the GOI is not able toinduce expression of trans-complemented adenoviral protease, noinfectious virions are produced. These variants are subsequently dilutedout during propagation of the viral population.

Through this system, GOI variants that are able to induce expression oftrans-complemented adenoviral protease result in infectious virions,carrying the gene for the positive variant. These viruses can then go onto infect new cells in a continuous directed evolution cycle. GOIvariants that are unable to induce expression of trans-complementedadenoviral protease, do not produce infectious virions. These variantsare subsequently diluted out during propagation of the viral population(FIG. 1).

Example 2. Proof of Principle: Evolution of Tet-Transactivator in HumanCells

To demonstrate the functionality of the continuous directed evolutionplatform described in Example 1, the tetracycline-dependenttransactivator protein (tet-transactivator) was incorporated as a GOIand evolved to be doxycycline independent (Gossen M. and Bujard H.,Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1992 Jun. 15; 89(12):5547-51). Thetet-transactivator protein is a transcription factor that is often usedfor small molecule regulated expression in mammalian cells. In theabsence of doxycycline, it binds to its target promoter, inducingexpression of the downstream gene. In the presence of doxycycline, thetet-transactivator does not bind to its target promoter, and thedownstream gene is not expressed.

In order to evolve the tet-transactivator to be doxycycline independent,the adenoviral protease gene was placed under the control of thetet-transactivator promoter (termed TRE3G), in the EP-Pol cell line(FIGS. 9 and 10). The TTA gene was also cloned into theΔpolΔprot-adenoviruses (FIG. 11). TRE3G prot cells were then infectedwith ΔpolΔprot- or TTA-ΔpolΔprot-adenoviruses. OnlyTTA-ΔpolΔprot-adenovirus are able to grow on TRE3G-prot cells (FIG. 12).These results indicate that inducible expression of adenovirus proteaseis able to select for viruses that express the tet-transactivator.

In order to demonstrate that all the components could work together toevolve GOIs, TTA was evolved to be doxycycline insensitive (Gossen M.and Bujard H., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1992 Jun. 15; 89(12):5547-51).ΔpolΔprot-adenovirus was passaged on the TRE3G-prot cells, in thepresence of doxycycline. In theory, only adenoviruses that had anevolved TTA that bound the TRE3G promoter in the presence of doxycyclinewould be able to induce expression of prot and continue to propagate.Using this system, the tet-transactivator was quickly evolved to beinsensitive to doxycycline (in <5 viral passages). Next-generationsequencing identified multiple mutations that were previously known tocause doxycycline insensitivity and multiple novel mutations (FIGS. 13and 14) (Hect, et al., J. Bacteriol., 1993 February; 175(4): 1206-10).Furthermore, most of these mutations mapped to the doxycycline bindingsite, providing further evidence for the idea that the TTA specificallyevolved to be immune to doxycycline. Interestingly, additional mutationswere found in the promoter of the TTA that were also enriched duringdirected evolution, highlighting the ability of the platform to findsolutions that would not be attainable in other systems that rely onnon-mammalian promoters or constructs. This experiment shows that theadenovirus-based system can be easily used to evolve biomolecules ofinterest in metazoan cells.

Example 3: Increasing Selection Stringency

Experiment were designed to tune selection stringency. To boostselection stringency of the system, experiments using adenovirusprotease inhibitor (originally developed by Novartis) were designed(Grosche et al., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2015 Feb. 1; 25(3): 438-43).The compound was synthesized, and its ability to inhibit adenoviralgrowth was tested (FIG. 15). These experiments demonstrated that thecompound was able to reduce adenoviral titers by at least four orders ofmagnitude, below the limit of detection for the assay (FIG. 16). Thus,using the inhibitor to lower the concentration of active protease in thecell line, can increase the selection stringency on evolving GOIs.

Example 4: Development of Suspension Cell Lines

Experiments were designed to develop a suspension cell line for use incontinuous evolution systems. An HEK-293F-derived cell line was designedthat contains both EP-Pol and TRE3G.prot. Because HEK-293Fs can be grownto higher densities in larger volumes than HEK-293As, these cells willfacilitate the testing of larger libraries of adenoviruses and, thus,increase the efficiency of the directed evolution process. Furthermore,HEK-293Fs are amenable to growth in a bioreactor, which could allow usto establish a “lagoon”-like evolution system (Esvelt et al., Nature2011 Apr. 28; 472(7344):499-503).

Example 5: Alternative DNA Viruses

While the continuous evolutions platforms described in Examples 1 and 2above involve an engineered adenovirus replication system to mediatedirected evolution of genes of interest, other engineered DNA viruseswould function likewise. For example, herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) waspreviously shown to have a DNA polymerase with a sufficiently highmutation rate as to be able to skirt drug selections (Duffy et al., BMCInfect. Dis. 2002 May 7; 2:7). Furthermore, various HSV genes have beenidentified as necessary for the generation of infectious HSV particles,which can potentially be used as selectable markers in a continuousevolution platform. One gene in particular, glycoprotein D, has beenpreviously trans-complemented, and is necessary for HSV infection(Connolly et al., J. Virol. 2003 July; 77(14):8127-40). Thus, one couldset up a trans-complementation system using an HSV-2 DNA virus where itsnative polymerase mutates the GOI, and selection could be based onproper function of glycoprotein D.

Example 6: Mutagenic Variants of DNA Viral DNA Polymerases

Mutagenesis can theoretically be achieved using a mutagenic variant ofany DNA viral DNA polymerase. Mutagenic polymerase variants have beenreported in both adenovirus (Uil et al., Nucleic Acid Res. 2011 March;39(5):e30) and herpes simplex virus 2 (Duffy et al., BMC Infect. Dis.2002 May 7; 2:7) and can conceivably be developed for any viral DNApolymerase.

Alternative mutagenesis methods that can be used with any DNA virusinclude radiation and chemical mutagens. For example, ultraviolet light(Wechman et al., Viruses. 2016 Dec. 20; 8(12); Day and Ziolkowski,Photochem. Photobiol. 1981 September; 34(3):403-06) and mutagenicchemical agents such as nitrous acid, hydroxylamine or5-bromo-deoxyuridine (Williams et al., J. Gen. Virol. 1971 May;11(2):95-101) have been used successfully to mutate adenovirus.Furthermore, the expression of DNA damaging enzymes such asactivation-induced cytidine deaminase (Yoshikawa et al., Science. 2002Jun. 14; 296(5575):2033-06) or Apobec1-dCas9 fusions (Kim et al., Nat.Biotechnol. 2017 April; 35(4):371-76) can allow for global mutagenesisor gRNA-directed site-specific mutagenesis, respectively, for any DNApresent in the human cell, including viral DNA.

The use of cell lines that are deficient in DNA repair pathways can alsobe used in conjunction with the above mutagenesis methods in order tofurther boost the mutation rate. For example, disruption of uracil DNAglycosylase (a component of the base-excision repair pathway) leads toincreased spontaneous mutagenesis (Saribasak et al., J. Immunol. 2006Jan. 1; 176(1):365-71). Another way to increase the spontaneous mutationrate is to express protein inhibitors of DNA repair pathways, such asUracil Glycosylase Inhibitor (Ugi) which inhibits the aforementioneduracil DNA glycosylase (Radany et al., Mutat. Res. 2000 Sep. 15;461(1):41-58).

Example 7. Additional Selection Schemes

Continuous evolution platforms are not limited to embodiments comprisinga transcriptional couple. Indeed, the continuous evolution platformsdescribed herein, include, but are not limited to, continuous selectionembodiments that comprise coupling to protein translation, enzymaticactivity, protein-protein interactions, protein trafficking, and proteinmodifications. Here, various examples of these embodiments are provided.

Protein Modification:

β-catenin is constitutively ubiquitinated and degraded; however,oncogenic mutations disrupt β-catenin ubiquitination and allow it totravel to the nucleus and induce tumorigenesis. In the context of acontinuous evolution platform, the adenoviral protease gene could beplaced under the control of a β-catenin-inducible promoter, and anadenovirus carrying the wild-type β-catenin gene (the GOI) could becreated (Biechele et al., Cold Spring Harb. Protoc. 2009 June;2009(6):pdb.prot5223). Only β-catenin variants that are able to skirtubiquitination and localize in the nucleus will be able to inducetranscription of the viral protease, resulting in the production ofinfectious DNA viral particles. While the ultimate step is atranscriptional couple, this highlights how one can select based onother functions such as localization or proteasomal escape.

Enzymatic Activity:

Dickinson et. al. demonstrated a selection scheme in which one canevolve generalizable (not adenoviral protease) protease activity orspecificity in bacteria (Dickinson et al., Nat. Commun., 2014 Oct. 30;5:5352). In the context of a continuous evolution platform, one couldfuse—using a linker that includes a target protease cleavage amino acidsequence—the adenoviral protease gene to a degron that causes theadenoviral protease to be constitutively degraded (Iwamoto et al., Chem.Biol. 2010 Sep. 24; 17(9):981-88). One could then place the protease ofinterest (GOI) in the adenoviral genome. Only proteases that are able tosuccessfully cleave the degron off of the adenoviral protease wouldsurvive and propagate. In this case, selection would be based onfunctional protease escaping the proteasome.

Protein Translation:

The traditional approach for evolving new amino-acyl-tRNA-synthetases(aaRS) is to place an amber stop codon in a selectable gene and forcethe organism to incorporate the unnatural amino acid at that position tosurvive (Liu and Schultz, Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2010; 79:413-44). In thecontext of a continuous evolution platform, one could place an amberstop codon at a permissive site in the adenoviral protease gene and putthe aaRS and a corresponding tRNA in the adenoviral genome (GOIs). OnlyaaRS that are able to charge tRNAs with unnatural amino acids to beincorporated at the amber stop codon will propagate.

Small-Molecule Inhibition:

Perhaps the simplest directed evolution platform one could undertake isthe evolution of antibiotic resistance (e.g. methotrexate). In thecontext of a continuous evolution platform, one could place theantibiotic resistance marker (e.g. DHFR) in the adenoviral genome anddose the culture with methotrexate. Only variants that are able toinduce cellular resistance to methotrexate will allow the virus topropagate.

Example 8. Materials and Methods for Examples 9-12

Cloning Methods:

All PCR reactions for cloning and assembling recombineering targetingcassettes were performed using Q5 High Fidelity DNA Polymerase (NewEngland BioLabs). Restriction cloning was performed using restrictionendonucleases and Quick Ligase from New England BioLabs. Adenoviralconstructs were engineered using ccdB recombineering, as previouslydescribed (Wang H. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)) andfurther optimized herein. Primers were obtained from Life Technologiesand Sigma-Aldrich (TABLE 5). The TPL Gene block was obtained fromIntegrated DNA Technologies (TABLE 5). Sequences for all plasmidsdeveloped here can be obtained from GenBank using the accession numbersprovided in TABLE 6.

TABLE 2 Adenoviruses constructed and used in this study. NameModifications relative to wild-type Ad5 AdCFP E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3CFP.ΔAdPol.GFP E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol E4R-GFP tTA_(wt).mCherry E1L-tTAΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry tTA_(wt).GFP E1L-tTAaak ΔE1 ΔE3ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-GFP Cre.Ad E1L-Cre ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherryLeuRS.Ad E1L-LeuRS ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry AdEvolve-DESTE1L-DEST ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry ΔAdProtΔAdPol- E1R-CFP ΔE1ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol adenovirus AdGLΔPol (Uil, E1L-Luciferase-GFP ΔE1 ΔE3T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011)) Note: All viruses usedin this work were derived from AdCFP except for AdGLΔPol, which waspreviously reported (Uil, T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30(2011)).

Cell Culture:

Cells were cultured at 37° C. and 5% CO₂(g). New cell lines were derivedfrom a parent HEK293A cell line (ATCC) and cultured in Dulbecco'smodified Eagle's medium (DMEM; Cellgro) supplemented with 10% fetalbovine serum (FBS; Cellgro), 1% penicillin-streptomycin (Cellgro), and1% L-glutamine (Cellgro). For assays involving the tetracycline(Tet)-dependent transcriptional activation system (directed evolution ofdox insensitivity, promoter activity assays, and reverse genetics),Tet-approved FBS (Takara Bio) was used. The producer and mutator celllines (TABLE 3) were cultured in 50 μg/mL hygromycin (Thermo Fisher) tostably maintain transgenes, while the selector and phenotyping celllines (TABLE 3) were cultured in 1 μg/mL puromycin (Corning) for thesame purpose.

TABLE 3 Cell lines used in this study. Cell line Polymerase Transgenecassette Producer AdPol CMV.AdProt Mutator EP-Pol CMV.AdProt SelectorEP-Pol TRE3G.AdProt Phenotyping AdPol TRE3G.eGFP Note: All cell lineswere derived from HEK293A cells.

Generation of Cell Lines by Lentiviral Transduction:

In a typical protocol, ˜9×10⁶ HEK293FT cells (Thermo Fisher) were platedon a poly-D-lysine-coated 10 cm plate. The next day, the cells wereco-transfected with plasmids from a third-generation lentiviralpackaging system (Dull T. et al., J. Virol. 72, 8463-8471 (1998)): 15 μgRRE, 6 μg REV, 3 μg VSVG, and 15 μg transfer vector using 60 μLLipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher). Cultures were maintained in 5 mLtotal volume of OPTI-MEM (Gibco) during the transfection. After 8 h, themedia was exchanged for fresh DMEM. After 48 h, media was harvested andcentrifuged for 5 min at 3,200×g to clear the cell debris. Thesupernatant was used to transduce HEK293A cells supplemented with 4μg/mL polybrene (Sigma-Aldrich). After 24 h, the media was exchanged forfresh DMEM. 48 h later, media was exchanged again for DMEM containingappropriate antibiotics to select stable cell lines.

Adenovirus Production:

Adenoviruses were produced by transfecting a PacI (New EnglandBioLabs)-linearized vector into appropriate trans-complementing HEK293Acells (ΔAdPol adenoviruses on wild-type AdPol cells, ΔAdProtΔAdPoladenoviruses on producer cells; see TABLE 3). 24 μg of PacI-linearizedadenovirus vectors mixed with 144 μL polyethyleneimine (Sigma-Aldrich)in 1 mL OptiMEM (Gibco) was added to a 15 cm plate of producer cells(TABLE 3; ˜3×10⁷ cells). Media was replaced 8 h post-transfection, andthen intermittently replaced every 2-3 days until plaques were observed(typically ˜3 weeks). Once plaques were detected, cytopathic effect wasobserved in all cells within 5 days. Upon complete cytopathic effect,the cells and media were harvested and subjected to three freeze/thawcycles. The cell debris was removed by centrifugation at 3,200×g for 15min and the supernatant stored at −80° C.

Mutagenesis Rate Determination:

The mutagenic potential of AdPol variants was evaluated following apreviously reported protocol (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 39,e30 (2011)). Briefly, a polymerase-deleted Ad5, AdGLΔPol, was subjectedto 10 serial passages on cultures of 911 cells (Fallaux F. J. et al.,Hum. Gene Ther. 7, 215-222 (1996)) expressing EP-Pol in order toaccumulate mutations. After 10 serial passages, 911 cells expressingwild-type AdPol were infected in a 6-well plate at ˜50 plaque-formingunits/well in order to amplify pools of 50 viral clones for sequencing.Using pools of 50 or fewer clonal viruses ensured that mutations presentin only one clone will be present at a frequency above the threshold ofdetection. From each 50-clone viral pool, a 6.5-kb fragment wasamplified and prepared for deep sequencing. Libraries were subjected to32 cycles of single-read sequencing by an Illumina Genome Analyzer II.

AdPol and AdProt Trans-Complementation Assays:

The day before beginning the assay, a 6-well plate was seeded with˜1×10⁶ of the indicated cells. The next day, individual wells wereinfected with the indicated adenoviruses at a low MOI (<0.5) in order topermit observation of the presence or absence of a spreading infection.AdPol and EP-Pol trans-complementation (see FIG. 24 for AdPol and FIG.20B for EP-Pol) was tested by monitoring CFP.ΔAdPol.GFP adenovirusinfection on either AdPol- or EP-Pol-expressing HEK293A cells. Pictureswere taken with an Olympus U-TB190 microscope. AdProt and AdPol doubletrans-complementation (see FIG. 25) was tested by monitoringΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenovirus (TABLE 2) infection on producer cells. Pictureswere taken with a Nikon Eclipse TE200 microscope.

Determining Adenoviral Titer by Flow Cytometry:

Adenoviral titers were determined through flow cytometry. Known volumesof AdPol- and AdProt-deleted viral supernatants were added toAdPol-expressing HEK293A cells. 2-3 days post-infection, cells werewashed once with media, stained with 0.2 μg/mL DAPI, and then analyzedon a BD LSR II Analyzer for fluorescent protein expression. Infectioustiters were determined by measuring the percentage of cells infected bya known volume of virus. To minimize counting cells that were infectedby more than one virus and to minimize any background fluorescence, datawere only considered if they fell within the linear range, whichtypically encompassed samples where 1-10% of cells were infected.

Competition Experiments:

A confluent dish of selector cells (TABLE 3; ˜15 million cells) wasinfected with either a 1:100 or 1:1,000 mixture of tTA_(wt):tTA_(mut)adenovirus (MOI˜0.25; TABLE 2). Plates were monitored for the appearanceof spreading infection, defined by fluorescent “comets” or plaques,every 24 h. One day after the observation of spreading infection, 1 mLof media was transferred to a new semi-confluent dish (˜1×10⁷ cells) ofselector cells for the next passage (see TABLE 3), and 2 mL of media wasstored at −80° C. for later analysis. To analyze the relative amounts ofeach virus present after each passage, the relative adenoviral titerswas measured by flow cytometry (see above). The ratio of tTA_(wt) andtTA_(mut) viruses was determined by taking the ratio of cells expressingonly mCherry and only GFP.

AdProt inhibitor experiments: A confluent 12-well plate of selectorcells (TABLE 3) (˜4×10⁵ cells/well) was infected with tTA_(wt).mCherryadenovirus (MOI˜5). After 4 h, the cells were washed with PBS (Corning),and the AdProt inhibitor was added at the indicated concentrations (0μM, 1 μM, 20 μM) in the absence or presence of 2 nM doxycycline (dox;Sigma-Aldrich). After 6 days, media and cells were harvested andsubjected to three freeze/thaw cycles, and analyzed by flow cytometry(see above).

TABLE 4 Tabulation of next-generation sequencing results andexperimental parameters used to estimate the EP-Pol mutation rate.1Estimated number Size of the region Substitution Substitutions per Ad ofclones sequenced and analyzed load per genome per viral sequenced (bp)million bp generation 27.3* 6020 365 1.31** *Viral pool size wasestimated based on intra-experiment titrations during pool preparations**Assuming a genome size of 36 kb and that 27.3 genomes were sequenced.Each of the 10 passages was defined as a generation.

Continuous Evolution Workflow:

Before initiating directed evolution, 500 μL of a tTA_(wt).mCherryadenovirus was amplified on mutator cells (see TABLE 3) to create adiverse viral population. After 5 days, cytopathic effect was observedin all cells. This amplified virus was harvested with three freeze/thawcycles. Three 15 cm, semi-confluent dishes of selector cells (TABLE 3)(˜1×10⁷ cells/plate) were infected with either 250, 500, or 1,000 μL ofthe amplified virus in the presence of dox. Plates were monitored forplaques every day. If more than one plate displayed a plaque on the sameday, the plate with the lowest volume of virus added was used for thenext round of evolution. The day after a plaque was observed, three 15cm semi-confluent dishes of selector cells were again infected in thepresence of dox. The three dishes were infected with 250, 500, or 1,000μL of media from the previous round by direct transfer without afreeze/thaw step. 2 mL of media were saved in Eppendorf tubes and storedat −80° C. for future analysis. In Trial 1, the concentration of dox wasincreased to 200 nM at passage 7 and then to 20 μM in passages 8-12. InTrial 2, the concentration of dox was held constant at 200 nM for allseven passages.

Measuring Promoter Activity of Viral Populations:

To follow changes in promoter activity developing during Trial 1,phenotyping cells (TABLE 3) were plated in a 96-well plate at ˜40,000cells/well. The next day, 30 μL of media from passages 1-12 was used toinfect two rows of the 96-well plate. Media was removed 5 hpost-infection and replaced with media containing 0 μM or 20 μM dox. Thecells were then analyzed by flow cytometry (see above for samplepreparation) for simultaneous expression of mCherry, indicating that thecell was infected, and GFP, indicating that the promoter was activatedby the tTA protein.

Viral Genome Isolation for Next-Generation Sequencing:

Using a viral DNA isolation kit (NucleoSpin Virus; Macherey-Nagel), DNAwas harvested from 200 μL of the media that was saved after each roundof evolution. A 1.75 kb region of DNA encompassing the CMV promoter andthe tTA gene was PCR-amplified from 1 μL of the harvested DNA for 20rounds of amplification using 5′-ctacataagacccccaccttatatattctttcc-3′(SEQ ID NO: 199) and 5′-agcgggaaaactgaataagaggaagtgaaatc-3′ (SEQ ID NO:200) forward and reverse primers, respectively. The resulting PCRproduct was purified and prepared for Illumina sequencing via theNextera DNA Library Prep protocol (Illumina). 250 bp paired-endsequencing was run on a MiSeq (Illumina). Sequencing reads were alignedto the amplicon sequence, which was derived from the tTA_(wt).mCherryadenovirus sequence using bwa mem 0.7.12-r1039 [RRID:SCR_010910]. Allelepileups were generated using samtools v1.5 mpileup [RRID:SCR_002105]with flags -d 10000000 -excl-flags 2052, and allele counts/frequencieswere extracted (Li H. et al., Bioinformatics 25, 2078-2079 (2009); Li H.Bioinformatics 27, 2987-2993 (2011)). Each position within the tTA geneand CMV promoter had at least 1,000-fold coverage.

Reverse Genetics of tTA Variants:

HEK-293A cells were seeded in a 12-well plate at ˜4×10⁵ cells/well. Thenext day, 0.2 μg of the pBud.tTA.mCherry vector was co-transfected with1 μg of the pLVX-TRE3G.eGFP vector using 7.2 μL of polyethyleneimine(Polysciences) and 100 μL OPTI-MEM. 8 h post-transfection, media wasexchanged and 20 μM dox was added. 48 h post-transfection, cells wereanalyzed by flow cytometry (see above for sample preparation). Promoteractivity was calculated based on the mean fluorescence intensity of GFPfluorescence, backgated for only mCherry-expressing cells.

Wild-Type AdPol and EP-Pol Vectors:

The lentiviral vector encoding HA-tagged wild-type AdPol was previouslydescribed (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011)).Mutations were introduced by site-directed mutagenesis. CMV.AdProtvector: A 641 bp fragment containing adenoviral protease (AdProt) wasamplified from the Ad5 genome using the primers BamHI.AdProt Forward andSalI.AdProt Reverse (TABLE 5) and ligated into pTRETight (Clontech)using BamHI and SalI to make the pTRE-Tight.AdProt vector. The Ad5Tripartite leader sequence (TPL) was amplified from the TPL gene blockusing the primers TPL.GA.Forward and TPL.GA.Reverse (TABLE 5) and thepTRE-Tight.AdProt vector was amplified using the primersTight.AdProt.GA.Forward and Tight.AdProt.GA.Reverse (TABLE 5). The TPLand pTRE-Tight.AdProt amplicons were assembled using the HiFi DNAassembly kit (New England Biolabs) to create the pTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProtvector. From this vector, an 852 bp fragment containing TPL.AdProt wasamplified using the primers NotI.TPL.AdProt.Forward andXbaI.TPL.AdProt.Reverse (TABLE 5) and inserted into the pENTR1A vector(Thermo Fisher) using NotI and XbaI. The LR clonase II enzyme mixture(Thermo Fisher) was used to recombine the TPL.AdProt fragment frompENTR1A.TPL.AdProt into pLenti.CMV.Hygro (w117-1) (Thermo Fisher).

TABLE 5 Primers used to construct lentiviral and adenoviral plasmidsthrough cloning and recombineering. SEQ ID Name Sequence - 5′ to 3′ NO:BamHI.AdProt.Forward aaaaaaggatccaccatgggctccagtgag 37SalI.AdProtReverse aaaaagtcgacttacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 38EcoRI.TPL.Forward aaaaaagcggccgcactctcttccgcatcg 39 BamHI.TPL.Reverseaaaaaatctagattacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 40 TPL.GA.Forwardatcgcctggagaattcactctcttccgcatcgct 41 TPL.GA.Reversectcactggagcccattgcgactgtgactggttag 42 TPL Gene Blockaaaaaagaattcactctcttccgcatcgctgtctgcgagggccagctgttgggctcgcggttga 43ggacaaactcttcgcggtctttccagtactcttggatcggaaacccgtcggcctccgaacaggtactccgccgccgagggacctgagcgagtccgcatcgaccggatcggaaaacctctcgagaaaggcgtctaaccagtcacagtcgcaggatcctttttt Tight.AdProt.GA.Forwardatgggctccagtgagcag 44 Tight.AdProt.GA.Reverse gaattctccaggcgatctg 45NotI.TPL.AdProt.Forward aaaaaagcggccgcactctcttccgcatcg 46XbaI.TPL.AdProt.Reverse aaaaaatctagattacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 47TPL.AdProt GA.Forward tggagaaggatccgcactctcttccgcatcgct 48TPL.AdProt GA.Reverse atctagagccggcgcttacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 49NotI.eGFP.Forward aaaaaaagcggccgccgccaccatggtgag 50 EcoRI.eGFP.Reverseaaaaaagaattccggccgctttacttgtac 51 NotI.mCherry.Forwardaaaaaagcggccgcgcaccatggtgagcaag 52 Xhoi.mCherry.Reverseaaaaaactcgagactacttgtacagctcgtccatg 53 SalI.TTA.Forwardaaaaaagtcgacatgtctagactggacaagagcaaag 54 BamHI.TTA.Reverseaaaaaaggatccttacccggggagcatgtcaagg 55 NotI.TPL.Forwardaaaaaagcggccgcactctcttccgcatcg 56 XbaI.AdProt.Reverseaaaaaatctagattacatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaagaag 57 pENTR1A.AdProt.FLAG.taatctagacccagctttcttgtacaaagttggcattataag 58 ForwardpENTR1A.AdProt.FLAG.agaaagctgggtctagattacttatcgtcgtcatccttgtaatccatgtttttcaagtgacaaaaag 59Reverse aagtggcg LoxP2Term.GA.Forwardagtcgactggatccggtaccgccgcatcaacgagctc 60 LoxP2Term.GA.Reversegagagtgcggccgcgaattcgaggcccagagggtacc 61 pENT.AdProt.GA.Forwardgaattcgcggccgcac 62 pENT.AdProt.GA.Reverse ggtaccggatccagtcgac 63L8.STOP.Forward cagtgagcaggaatagaaagccattgtcaaagatcttggttgtgg 64L8.STOP.Reverse ctttgacaatggctttctattcctgctcactggagcccattg 65E1.kanccdB.Forwardatacaaaactacataagacccccaccttatatattctttcccacccttaaccctcatcagtgccaa 66catagtaag E1.kanccdB.Reverseaataagaggaagtgaaatctgaataattttgtgttactcatagcgcgtaaccgctcattaggcgg 67 gcTetR.kanccdB.Forwardtggaactaatcatatgtggcctggagaaacagctaaagtgcgaaagcggcccgctcattagg 68 cgggcTetR.kanccdB.Reversecgcgaacaaatgtggtatggctgattatgatcctctagagataattctagccctcatcagtgcca 69acatagtaag E1.CMV.Promoter.Forwardatacaaaactacataagacccccaccttatatattctttcccacccttaagccacgcccacagat 70atacgcgttgacattg E1.bGH.polyA.Reverseaataagaggaagtgaaatctgaataattttgtgttactcatagcgcgtaatagaagccatagag 70cccac E4.kanccdB.Forwardcaaaaaacccacaacttcctcaaatcgtcacttccgttttcccacgttacccctcatcagtgcca 72acatagtaag E4.kanccdB.Reverseagtaacttgtatgtgttgggaattgtagttttcttaaaatgggaagtgacccgctcattaggcggg 73 cE4.SV40.Promoter.Forwardcaaaaaacccacaacttcctcaaatcgtcacttccgttttcccacgttacttctgtggaatgtgtgt 74cagttaggg E4.SV40.polyA.Reverseagtaacttgtatgtgttgggaattgtagttttcttaaaatgggaagtgacctctagctagaggtcg 75acggtatac Pol.kanccdB Forwardtcccgcgcttcttggaactttacattgtgggccacaacatcaacggccctccctcatcagtgcc 76aacatagtaag Pol.kanccdB Reverseggcacctcggaacggttgttaattacctgggcggcgagcacgatctcgtcccgctcattaggc 77 gggcdelPol.Forwardgcgcggccttccggagcgaggtgtgggtgagcgcaaaggtgtccctgaccatgaccagcat 78gaagggcacgagctgcttcccaaaggcccccatccaag delPol.Reversecttggatgggggcctttgggaagcagctcgtgcccttcatgctggtcatggtcagggacacctt 79tgcgctcacccacacctcgctccggaaggccgcgc AdProt.kanccdB.Forwardggcaacgccacaacataaagaagcaagcaacatcaacaacagctgccgccccctcatcagt 80gccaacatagtaag AdProt.kanccdB.Reversetacaaataaaagcatngcctttattgaaagtgtctctagtacattatttccgctcattaggcgggc 81delAdProt.Forwardggcaacgccacaacataaagaagcaagcaacatcaacaacagctgccgccaaataatgtac 82tagagacactttcaataaaggcaaatgcttttatttgta delAdProt.Reversetacaaataaaagcatttgcctttattgaaagtgtctctagtacattatttggcggcagctgttgttga 83tgttgcttgcttctttatgttgtggcgttgcc

TRE3G.AdProt Vector:

TPL-AdProt was amplified from pTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProt using the primersTPL.AdProt.GA.Forward and TPL.AdProt.GA.Reverse (TABLE 5) and assembledwith NotI-digested pLVX.Tight.Puro (Takara Biosciences) using the HiFiDNA assembly kit to form pLVX.Tight.TPL.AdProt.Puro. A fragmentcontaining TPL.AdProt was obtained from pLVX.Tight.TPL.AdProt.Puro bydigestion with EcoRI and BamHI and ligated into the pLVX.TRE3G vector(Takara Bio) to create the pLVX.TRE3G.AdProt vector.

Tre3G.Egfp Vector:

A 762 bp fragment containing eGFP was amplified from the eGFP-N3 vector(Takara Bio) using the primers NotI.eGFP.Forward and EcoRI.eGFP.Reverse(TABLE 5) and ligated into the pLVX-TRE3G vector (Takara Bio) using NotIand EcoRI to create the pLVX-TRE3G.eGFP vector.

tTA Variant Vectors:

A 743 bp fragment containing mCherry was amplified from apcDNA3.1-mCherry template plasmid using the primers NotI.mCherry.Forwardand XhoI.mCherry.Reverse (TABLE 5) and inserted into the pBudCE4.1vector (Thermo Fisher) using NotI and XhoI to create the pBud.mCherryvector. A 771 bp fragment containing tTA was amplified from atTA.mCherry adenoviral vector using the primers SalI.TTA.Forward andBamHI.TTA.Reverse (TABLE 5) and inserted into the pBud.mCherry vectorusing BamHI and SalI to create the pBud.tTA.mCherry vector.Site-directed mutagenesis was then performed on pBud.tTA.mCherry using aQuick-Change II XL Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Agilent) to generatethe indicated point mutations in tTA (FIG. 22F).

TABLE 6 Plasmid sequence accession numbers. GenBank SEQ Vector NameAccession Number ID NO: Wild-type AdPol vector MH325099 84 EP-Pol vectorMR325100 85 pTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProt MR325101 86 CMV.AdProt MR325102 87pLVX.TRE3G.AdProt MH325103 88 pLVX.TRE3G.eGFP MH325104 89pBud.tTA.mCherry MH325105 90 R6K-kan-ccdB MH325106 91 pcDNA3.1-mCherrytemplate plasmid MH325107 92 pcDNA3.1-GFP template plasmid MH325108 93pcDNA3.1-tTA template plasmid MH325109 94 pcDNA3.1-tTA_(aak) templateplasmid MH325110 95 pcDNA3.1-KanFDEST template MH325111 96 plasmid AdCFPMH325112 97 tTA_(wt).mCherry MH325113 98 tTA_(mut).GFP MH325114 99AdEvolve-DEST MH325115 100 ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenovirus MH325116 101

Adenoviral Constructs:

Adenoviral constructs were engineered using ccdB recombineering, aspreviously described, 2 in DH10B Escherichia coli carrying theadenovirus type 5 genome in a chloramphenicol-resistant bacterialartificial chromosome (AdBAC). Cells carrying an AdBAC were transformedwith the temperature-sensitive psc101l-gbaA recombineering plasmid (WangH. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)), plated on LB (Difco) agar(Alfa Aesar) with 10 μg/mL tetracycline (Cal-BioChem) and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol (Alfa Aesar), and incubated for 24 h at 30° C. Colonieswere selected and grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10μg/mL chloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnight cultureswere diluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining an OD600 of0.3-0.4. The ccdA antitoxin and recombineering machinery were theninduced by adding L-arabinose (Chem-Impex) and L-rhamnose (SigmaAldrich) to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD600 of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH2O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH2O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the appropriate kan-ccdB targeting cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8ms, 0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recoveredin super optimal broth with catabolite repression (SOC; Teknova) with 2mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, then plated on LB agar plates with50 μg/mL kanamycin (Alfa Aesar) and 2 mg/mL L-arabinose and incubatedfor 24 h at 30° C. Colonies that grew under these conditions hadincorporated the kan-ccdB targeting cassette and were picked intriplicate and grown in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycin and 2 mg/mLL-arabinose at 30° C. for 18-21 h. Note that the colonies were picked intriplicate because multimers of the AdBAC formed at a high rate (˜30-50%of colonies) during the first recombineering step. Such multimers cannotbe successfully recombineered in the next step. Picking three coloniesand recombineering them separately in parallel increases the chances ofpicking a monomer that can be successfully recombineered. The cultureswere then diluted 25-fold in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycin and 2 mg/mLL-arabinose and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until they reached an OD₆₀₀ of0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced by addingL-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH2O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the final targeting cassette intended to replace thekan-ccdB cassette currently integrated in the genome (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms,0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recovered inSOC with 2 mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, and then were washedonce with LB to remove the L-arabinose and prevent continued productionof the ccdA antitoxin. The cultures were then plated on LB agar platesat various dilutions with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and incubated for 24 h at 37° C. Without the ccdAantitoxin, the ccdB toxin will kill cells that have not replaced theintegrated kan-ccdB cassette with the final targeting cassette. Thecolonies that grow should, in principle, have the desired finaltargeting cassette integrated, but were always screened by PCR orsequencing to confirm cassette integration as some colonies may simplyinactivate the ccdB toxin.

The following modifications were made using the primers in TABLE 5 toobtain the adenoviruses (TABLE 2) used in this work:

TABLE 7 List of modifications and their means of production. KanccdBcassette primers used with Final targeting R6K-kan-ccdB cassettetemplate oligos or primers plasmid (unless and template (if ModificationGenotype stated otherwise) applicable) Purpose of modification AdPolΔAdPol Pol.kanccdB.Forward delPol.Forward and To prevent evolution ofDeletion and Pol.kanccdB.Reverse delPol.Reverse the adenoviralpolymerase. (annealed oligos) The error-prone version was expressed intrans. Insertion of E4R- E4.kanccdB.Forward E4.SV40.Promoter. mCherrywas inserted to mCherry mCherry and E4.kanccdB.Reverse Forward andenable the visualization of E4.SV40.Reverse infected cells. The E4 wereused to amplify position with the rightward from pcDNA3.1- facingorientation was mCherry template previously shown to allow plasmid foroptimal expression and viral titer (Suzuki M. et al., Gene Ther. 22,421-429 (2015)). Insertion of E4R-eGFP E4.kanccdB.ForwardE4.SV40.Promoter. eGFP was inserted to eGFP and E4.kanccdB.ReverseForward and enable the visualization of E4.SV40.Reverse infected cells.The E4 were used to amplify position with the rightward frompcDNA3.1-eGFP facing orientation was template plasmid previously shownto allow for optimal expression and viral titer (Suzuki M. et al., GeneTher. 22, 421-429 (2015)). AdProt ΔAdProt AdProt.kanccdB.ForwarddelAdProt.Forward This essential viral gene Deletion and AdProt.kanccdB.and delAdProt.Reverse was deleted so that viral Reverse (annealedoligos) replication could become dependent on the conditional expressionof the adenoviral protease in trans. Insertion of E1L-tTAE1.kanccdB.Forward E1.CMV.Promoter tTA was inserted as the active andE1.kanccdB.Reverse Forward and evolution target that must tTAE1.bGH.polyA.Reverse evolve to express used to amplify adenoviralprotease from from pcDNA3.1-tTA the host genome for template plasmidefficient viral propagation. The E1 position with the leftward facingorientation was previously shown to allow for optimal expression andviral titer (Suzuki M. et al., Gene Ther. 22, 421-429 (2015)). Insertionof E1L E1.kanccdB.Forward E1.CMV.Promoter. An inactive version of tTAinactive tTA_(aak) and E1.kanccdB.Reverse Forward and that recognizes adifferent tTA E1.bGH.polyA.Reverse tet operator (Krueger M. et used toamplify from al., Gene 404, 93-100 pcDNA3.1-tTA_(aak) (2007)) wasinserted to template plasmid generate a negative control virus.Insertion of E1L- E1L.KanccdB.Forward Not applicable, only Insertion ofa DEST DEST DEST and E1.kanccdB. Reverse the first step is requiredcassette into the E1 cassette used to amplify from position with theleftward pcDNA3.1-KanFDEST facing orientation. The template plasmid DESTcassette has attR sites that allow users to insert genes via Gatewaycloning. Replacement Not N/A, the replacement BAC2pUC.Forward Switchingto a high copy of applicable is a one-step and BAC2pUC.Reverse pUCorigin allowed for the the low copy recombineering used to amplify thepreparation of BAC origin since the pUC origin cassette concentrated,purified with origin switches from from pAd/CMV/V5- DNA, which was thehigh copy chloramphenicol to DEST (Thermo Fisher). necessary fortransfection pUC origin ampicillin resistant and successful adenovirusproduction.

Once a clone with all of the desired genetic changes was found andconfirmed by Sanger sequencing, the AdBAC single-copy replication originwas replaced with the high copy pUC origin. The cells with the correctclone were grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnight cultures werediluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining an OD600 of0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced by addingL-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD600 of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH2O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH2O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the pUC origin cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms, 0.1 cm cuvette;BioRad Micropulser). The cells were recovered in SOC at 30° C. for 2 h,then plated on LB agar plates with 100 μg/mL ampicillin and incubatedfor 24 h at 37° C. The resulting amp-resistant colonies should have thepUC origin inserted and were checked by verifying expected restrictiondigestion patterns. The colonies were grown in 25 mL LB containing 100μg/mL ampicillin and the DNA was purified using the Zymo-PURE II plasmidmidiprep kit (Zymo Research) according to the manufacturer'sinstructions. The DNA was digested with PacI overnight at 37° C. inorder to liberate and linearize the adenoviral genome. The linearizedDNA was purified using the E.Z.N.A. cycle pure kit (Omega Biotek)according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Example 9. Mutagenesis

Directed evolution methodologies have transformed our ability togenerate biomolecules with improved or novel functionalities (Packer M.S. and Liu D. R., Nat. Rev. Genet. 16, 379-394 (2015); Gai S. A. andWittrup K. D., Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 17, 467-473 (2007); Romero P.A. and Amold F. H., Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 10, 866-876 (2009); ShanerN. C. et al., Nat. Biotechnol. 22, 1567-1572 (2004); Branon T. C. etal., Nat. Biotechnol., doi:10.1038/nbt.4201 (2018); Arzumanyan G. A. etal., ACS Synth. Biol. 7, 1722-1729 (2018)). The vast majority ofdirected evolution experiments are performed in test tubes, bacteria, oryeast. While these strategies have yielded many successes, they alsofrequently lead to products that fail to function optimally when laterintroduced into complex metazoan systems. The evolved functions can bederailed by off-target interactions, poor protein folding or stability,pleiotropic outputs, or other serious problems that arise because thebiomolecules were discovered and optimized in overly simplisticenvironments (Zetsche B. et al., Cell 163, 759-771 (2015); Peck S. H. etal., Chem. Biol. 18, 619-630 (2011); Piatkevich K. D. et al., Nat. Chem.Biol. 14, 352-360 (2018)). This frontier challenge could be mostdirectly addressed by leveraging the human cell itself as the design,engineering, and quality control factory for directed evolution-mediatedbiomolecule discovery and optimization.

Extant strategies for directed evolution in human cells rely almostentirely on fluorescent screens to identify active biomolecule variants.The most common technique is in vitro plasmid mutagenesis followed bytransfection and screening (Banaszynski L. A. et al., Cell 126, 995-1004(2006)). This approach is slow, labor-intensive, and significantlyconstrains library sizes. Other methods include in vivo mutagenesisthrough somatic hypermutation in immune cells followed by fluorescentscreening (Wang C. L. et al., Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 17, 659-664 (2004);Wang L. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 16745-16749 (2004)),or the use of robotic cell-picking techniques to more comprehensivelyscreen for desired phenotypes across multiple dimensions (e.g., bothextent and localization of a fluorescent signal) (Piatkevich K. D. etal., Nat. Chem. Biol. 14, 352-360 (2018)). These methods, whilevaluable, are still slow, inefficient, limited to fluorescent readoutsfor selection, and have limited library sizes (˜10⁵ variants for themost recent robotic platform). Another recent development has been theuse of cytidine deaminase fused to Cas9 variants to introduce mutationsinto endogenous genes in human cells and selecting or screening fordesired phenotypes (Ma Y. et al., Nat. Methods 13, 1029-1035 (2016);Hess G. T. et al., Nat. Methods 13, 1036-1042 (2016); Komor A. C. etal., Nature 533, 420-424 (2016)). However, these methods require thedesign and synthesis of many guide RNAs to tile along regions ofinterest, which can be labor intensive and may require guide RNAs to beredesigned as mutations accumulate. Moreover, directed evolutionachieved via in vivo mutagenesis of the human genome is limited by theslow growth rate of human cells and the high potential for falsepositives (‘cheating’) associated with any strategy that relies on cellselection or screening.

A broadly useful human cell-based directed evolution platform requiresseveral critical features: (1) Large mutational libraries expressed inthe human cell; (2) Selection schemes providing a broad dynamic rangefor selection and minimal opportunities for cheating; (3) Capacity toevolve multiple biomolecule functions; (4) Applicability across multiplecell types; and (5) Ideally, a minimal need for experimenterintervention during evolution experiments.

Inspiration for such a platform can be drawn from prior efforts couplingbiomolecule function to viral replication using HIV (Das A. T. et al.,J. Biol. Chem. 279, 18776-18782 (2004)) or bacteriophage (Esvelt K. M.et al., Nature 472, 499-503 (2011)). However, HIV-based strategiessuffer from an inability of the virus to propagate under strongselection pressure or in most cell types, and raise safety concernssurrounding large-scale HIV culture. The M13 bacteriophage used inphage-assisted continuous evolution provides large mutational librariesand enables rapid rounds of selection and mutagenesis for biomoleculescarrying out diverse functions, but only permits directed evolution inbacterial cells.

With these parameters and challenges in mind, this study aimed to devisea broadly useful human cell-based directed evolution platform. It wasrationalized that adenovirus type-5 would be a practical vector fordirected evolution of biomolecules in human cells, owing to its genetictractability and broadly infectious nature in many human cell types(Lucher L. A., Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 199 (Pt 1), 119-152(1995); Amalfitano A. and Chamberlain J. S., Gene Ther. 4, 258-263(1997)). Conceptually, if the replication of a highly mutagenicadenovirus somehow depended on the activity of a biomolecule of interest(BOI) encoded in the adenoviral genome, then a simple directed evolutionscheme for evolving diverse BOI functions in human cells could befeasible.

To achieve this concept, the essential adenoviral DNA polymerase (AdPol)and protease (AdProt) genes were first deleted from an adenoviral genomethat also encoded the BOI for evolution (FIG. 19A). The resultingpartially gutted adenovirus is incapable of replication outsideengineered human cells. The missing AdPol was trans-complemented byconstitutive expression, within human cells, of a newly engineered andhighly mutagenic AdPol variant to enable the generation of largemutational libraries during viral replication. AdProt expression in thehuman cells was then engineered to depend conditionally upon BOIfunction (FIG. 19B). Directed evolution experiments in this system relyon simply serially passaging the BOI-encoding adenovirus whilemutagenesis and selection continuously occur (FIG. 19C).

Here, the key features of this new platform are presented, includingmutagenesis, selection, and enrichment parameters. The platform'sutility was demonstrated via proof-of-concept directed evolutionexperiments in which multiple transcription factor variants wereevolved, directly in the human cell environment, that maintained highlevels of function while gaining resistance to a small moleculeinhibitor. Altogether, this platform holds significant potential to notonly enable the development of new research tools, but also to enhanceour understanding of metazoan evolutionary biology and our ability torapidly generate and optimize biomolecular therapeutics.

Adenovirus type-5 relies on its own DNA polymerase, AdPol, forreplication of its double-stranded DNA genome (Hoeben R. C. and Uil T.G., Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 5 (2013)). The high fidelity AdPolhas an estimated mutation rate of ˜1.3×10⁻⁷ mutations per base per viralpassage, based on high fidelity deep sequencing experiments performed bySanjtian and co-workers (Risso-Ballester J. et al., PLOS Pathog. 12,e1006013 (2016)). Such a low mutation rate is insufficient to generatethe large library sizes necessary for laboratory time-scale directedevolution. This study sought to increase the mutation rate of adenovirusby engineering a highly mutagenic variant of AdPol.

Previous studies identified two amino acid substitutions in AdPol, F421Yand D827A, that separately increase the mutation rate of AdPol, likelythrough distinct mechanisms (FIG. 21A) (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic AcidsRes. 39, e30 (2011)). In the 429 bacteriophage polymerase (Davis J. N.and van den Pol A. N., J. Virol. 84, 1625-1630 (2010)), an AdPolhomolog, the amino acid analogous to F421 occurs in the proofreadingexonuclease domain, suggesting that the F421Y AdPol variant may haveweakened proofreading capacity. The amino acid analogous to D827 occursin the fingers domain involved in selection of incoming nucleotides,again suggesting a possible mechanism for the reduced fidelity of D827AAdPol. It was reasoned that combining these two substitutions to createthe F421Y/D827ΔAdPol double-mutant, which was termed error-prone AdPol(or EP-Pol), would allow us to further increase the mutation rate whilestill supporting robust adenovirus propagation.

To test this hypothesis, recombineering was used to inactivate the AdPolgene encoded by the adenovirus type-5 genome via an internal deletion(see TABLE 2 for a list of adenoviral constructs employed). Next,HEK293A cells were stably transduced with an HA-tagged version of eitherwild-type AdPol or EP-Pol (see TABLE 3) for a list of cell linesemployed). It was observed that ΔAdPol adenoviruses (CFP.ΔAdPol.GFPwhere CFP and GFP correspond to cyan and green fluorescent protein,respectively) propagated only on cells that expressed either AdPol (FIG.24) or EP-Pol in trans (FIG. 20B). Further, it was observed that EP-Poland wild-type AdPol both supported robust ΔAdPol-adenovirus replication.

The mutation rate endowed by EP-Pol was next assessed. After passagingΔAdPol-adenovirus (AdGLΔPol) on EP-Pol trans-complementing human cellsfor 10 serial passages, a 6.5 kb region of the genome was deep sequenced(FIG. 20C; see also TABLE 4). This sequencing revealed a mutation rateof 3.7×10⁵ mutations per base per passage. As the adenoviral genome is˜35 kb, this mutation rate indicates that EP-Pol introduced ˜1.3mutations into the genome per infected cell per passage. Moreover,EP-Pol displayed a broad mutational spectrum, including both transitionsand transversions (FIG. 20D).

The EP-Pol mutation rate measured was ˜370-fold greater than the errorrate of wild-type AdPol previously evaluated by the same method (Uil T.G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011)). However, the number ofmutations induced by wild-type AdPol was very low, near our limit ofdetection. Compared to the previously reported mutation rate ofwild-type AdPol (Risso-Ballester J. et al., PLOS Pathog. 12, e1006013(2016)), the mutation rate of EP-Pol was enhanced ˜280-fold. Bothcomparisons indicate that the EP-Pol mutation rate is similar to highlymutagenic RNA viruses that can readily evolve on laboratory timescales(Sanjuan R. et al., Viral mutation rates. J. Virol. 84, 9733-9748(2010); Davis J. N. and van den Pol A. N., J. Virol. 84, 1625-1630(2010); Phillips A. M. et al., eLife 6, e28652 (2017)).

The lower limit of the library size was next estimated in a givenpassage (or ‘round’) of directed evolution using EP-Pol. A typical roundof directed evolution might reasonably involve infecting 3.0×10⁸ humancells at a low MOI. Each round of directed evolution ends once ˜75% ofcells (˜2.3×10⁸ cells) are infected. Because ˜1.3 mutations areintroduced per cell per replication, and because there is at least onereplication in each round of evolution since the infection occurs at lowMOI, it was estimated that there are ˜3.0×10⁸ adenoviral variants afterone passage. Assuming a typical 1 kb gene encoding the BOI comprises ˜1/30 of the engineered adenoviral genome, there would be ˜1×10⁷ variantsof the BOI in the population after one round of evolution. Thiscalculation is a lower limit because it does not account for any geneticdiversity at the beginning of each round. Additionally, there is likelyto be more than a single replication in each round of evolution, whichwould further increase library complexity. Regardless, even thisconservative estimate indicates that one can generate virtually allsingle, many double, and some triple mutants in a single round ofevolution. Notably, the mutations are continuously introduced instead ofrequiring in vitro mutagenesis physically separated from selection andpropagation steps.

Example 10. Selection

The next objective was to design an appropriate selection scheme capableof coupling BOI activity to adenoviral propagation. After extensivetesting of assorted adenoviral genes, a scheme based on deleting thegene for adenoviral protease (AdProt) from the viral genome and thenproviding AdProt in trans from the human host cell (Elahi S. M. et al.,Gene Ther. 9, 1238-1246 (2002)) was developed. AdProt has vitalfunctions in viral uncoating, DNA replication, and viral maturation(Greber U. F., et al., EMBO J. 15, 1766-1777 (1996); Webster A. et al.,J. Virol. 68, 7292-7300 (1994)). Importantly, AdProt is a ‘late gene’expressed mainly after DNA replication of the adenoviral genome (WebsterA. et al., J. Virol. 68, 7292-7300 (1994)). Because AdProt is notrequired in the early stages of infection, BOI variants can be generatedby mutagenesis before selection pressure is applied during a giveninfection.

Whether AdProt trans-complementation could be achieved was first testedin the context of an adenovirus already requiring AdPoltrans-complementation. AdProt was stably expressed in anAdPol-expressing cell line, termed “producer” cells (see TABLE 3). Next,the progress of an adenovirus infection of ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenovirus onAdPol-expressing versus AdPol- and AdProt-expressing cells wasmonitored. It was observed that only the cell line constitutivelyexpressing both AdProt and AdPol supported robust replication ofΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenovirus (FIG. 25). Thus, host cell expression of AdPoland AdProt can successfully support the replication of an AdPol- andAdProt-deleted adenovirus, permitting both the facile production ofΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenoviruses and providing a potential mechanism to impartselection pressure in a directed evolution experiment.

The capacity of this AdProt-complementation strategy to confersufficient selection pressure to drive a directed evolution workflow wasnext evaluated. For this purpose, a competition experiment was performedon a model BOI, the tetracycline (tet)-transactivator (tTA) (Gossen M.and Bujard H., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89, 5547-5551 (1992); LoewR. et al., BMC Biotechnol. 10, 81 (2010)). Wild-type tTA (tTA_(wt))binds its endogenous operator, with a consensus sequence of5′-CCTATCAGTGATAGA-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 209), to induce downstream genetranscription. A tTA variant (tTA_(mut)) that is incapable of binding tothe endogenous operators has also been reported (Krueger M. et al., Gene404, 93-100 (2007)). tTA_(mut) instead possesses enhanced affinity forthe mutant 5′-CCcgTCAGTGAcgGA-3′ (SEQ ID NO: 210) operator.ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenoviruses were engineered that expressed eithertTA_(wt) and mCherry (tTA_(wt).mCherry) or tTA_(mut) and GFP(tTA_(mut).GFP). AdPol-expressing HEK293A cells were then stablytransduced with a lentiviral vector that provided AdProt under controlof the endogenous tTA operator (termed “selector” cells, see TABLE 3).In this cell line, tTA_(wt).mCherry adenovirus should be able tostrongly induce AdProt and propagate, whereas tTA_(mut).GFP should notinduce AdProt and therefore should not form infectious virions. Becausethese viruses express different fluorescent markers, relative viralpopulations can be assessed using flow cytometry upon infection of humancells that do not express AdProt in order to prevent propagation andtherefore more accurately quantify the resulting viral populations.

To test the hypothesis that AdProt induction could enable enrichment ofactive over inactive BOI variants, tTA_(wt).mCherry and tTA_(mut).GFPwere co-infected at an MOI of ˜0.25 in selector cells (see TABLE 3) atinitial ratios of 1:100 or 1:1,000 (FIG. 21A). Three serial passageswere then performed on selector cells, and the resulting viralpopulations were analyzed via infection of AdPol-expressing butAdProt-lacking HEK293A cells followed by flow cytometry. In the initialpassage, the tTA_(wt).mCherry adenovirus enriched at least 40-50-foldover the tTA_(mut).GFP adenovirus (FIG. 21B). Furthermore, across threerounds of passaging, the tTA_(wt).mCherry adenoviruses were consistentlyenriched to >90% of the adenoviral population regardless of the startingratios. Thus, the AdProt-based selection strategy can rapidly enrichactive BOIs that are initially present at low frequency in a viralpopulation.

The dynamic range of selection pressure for AdProt was next evaluated. Alarge dynamic range, meaning that the quantity of AdProt produced scaleswith viral production, would be beneficial for the incremental evolutionof BOI variants with increasing activity. The tTA-based genetic circuitwas used to examine the dynamic range of AdProt selection through theapplication of the tTA allosteric inhibitor, doxycycline (dox). In thepresence of dox, tTA is unable to bind its target operator and AdProtexpression should be turned off. When tTA_(wt).mCherry-expressingadenovirus was challenged with inhibitory concentrations of dox, an˜10-fold decrease in viral titer was observed (FIG. 21C, blue bars).

While an order of magnitude difference in infectivity provides somedynamic range for selecting improved BOI activity, an improvement to 2-3orders of magnitude dynamic range would be beneficial. Enzymes likeAdProt provide a significant advantage as selection markers in thisregard, owing to the potential of small molecule inhibitors administeredat defined concentrations to provide an expanded dose-response regime. Asmall molecule inhibitor could also provide a way to dynamically tuneselection pressure from low to high levels as a given directed evolutionexperiment proceeds. Indeed, when tTA_(wt).mCherry-expressingadenoviruses were challenged with various concentrations of the vinylsulfone AdProt inhibitor shown in FIG. 21C (Grosche P. et al., Bioorg.Med. Chem. Lett. 25, 438-443 (2015)), it was found that the inhibitorreduced the infectious titer of the tTA_(wt).mCherry virus >600-fold,providing ready access to the desired 2-3 orders magnitude dynamicrange. Notably, the AdProt inhibitor even further reduced infectioustiter in the presence of dox (FIG. 21C), further increasing theaccessible dynamic range for this particular experiment through acombination of regulated AdProt expression and direct AdProt inhibition.

Example 11. Directed Evolution of Functional, Drug-Resistant tTAVariants in Human Cells

The feasibility of actually evolving BOI function in human cells usingthis platform was next tested. For proof-of-concept, experiments weredesigned to evolve tTA variants that retained transcription-inducingactivity but gained resistance to their small molecule inhibitor, dox.Specifically, the tTA_(wt).mCherry virus was serially passaged in thepresence of dox in a “selector” cell line (see TABLE 3) that induciblyexpressed AdProt under control of the endogenous tTA operator. A lowmultiplicity of infection (˜0.05) was maintained to minimize theprobability that viruses encoding distinct tTA variants would co-infectthe same cell. Viral supernatant was transferred to fresh cell platesupon the first appearance of spreading infection, with the goal ofselecting for viruses that encode functional, but dox-resistant, tTAvariants.

Two evolution experiments were run in parallel (Trials 1 and 2) withdifferent selection pressure strategies (FIG. 22A). In Trial 1, theselection pressure was tuned over time, increasing the dox concentrationfrom 2 nM up to 20 μM. In Trial 2, the selection pressure was keptconstant by maintaining the dox concentration at 200 nM. In order totest whether dox-resistant tTA variant enriched in the population, theviral media from each passage in Trial 1 was used to infect a“phenotyping” cell line (see TABLE 3) containing GFP under control ofthe endogenous tTA operator in the presence of dox. This phenotypingcell line lacked AdProt, allowing the virus to infect the cells andinduce GFP expression, but not to proliferate. GFP induction wasmeasured by the viral population harvested after each serial passage inthe presence of 20 μM dox in these phenotyping cells using flowcytometry (FIG. 22B). Substantial dox-resistant tTA activity emerged bypassage 5, suggesting that dox-resistant variant(s) of tTA may havearisen and enriched in the viral population.

Whether mutations in the tTA gene contributed to this decreased doxsensitivity was examined. A 1.75-kb region of the adenoviral genomecontaining the tTA open reading frame was amplified and sequenced fromvirus harvested at each passage during both Trials. Using thisapproach, >200 unique mutations were detected that attained ≥1%frequency by passage 4 in Trial 1, even though promoter activity atpassage 4 was still undetectable (FIG. 22C). In Trial 2, 43 mutationsattained ≥1% by passage 4 (FIG. 28). By passage 5, a single amino acidsubstitution in tTA attained >70% frequency in the viral population inboth trials (E147K in Trial 1 and H100Y in Trial 2), rapidly becomingfully fixed in the population thereafter (FIGS. 22D-22E). Both mutationsobserved were previously reported to confer dox-resistance in tTA (HechtB. et al., J. Bacteriol. 175, 1206-1210 (1993)), which was furtherconfirmed through transient co-transfection of a plasmid encoding eGFPunder control of the endogenous tTA operator along with wild-type,E147K, or H100Y tTA-encoding plasmids into HEK293A cells in the presenceor absence of dox (FIG. 22F). Additional mutations that were alsopreviously reported to confer dox-resistance were also observed at >10%frequency early in the directed evolution experiment (H100Y in Trial 1and G102D in Trial 2).

These results highlight both the different outcomes that can derive fromrepeated evolution experiments and the capacity of the platform toexplore sequence space in human cells. Additionally, these resultsdemonstrate that one can evolve biomolecules using two differentselection pressure protocols (gradually increasing pressure or constant,moderately high pressure). In summary, the directed evolution protocolcan successfully generate and rapidly enrich functional BOI variants inhuman cells, merely by serial passaging of a BOI-encoding adenovirus.

Example 12. Discussion

Here reported is the development, characterization, andproof-of-principle application of a highly adaptable platform fordirected evolution of diverse BOI functions in human cells. In thisplatform (FIG. 19C), human cells are infected by a BOI-encodingadenovirus lacking the essential AdProt and AdPol genes. A newlyengineered, highly error-prone variant of AdPol, EP-Pol, constitutivelyexpressed by the human cells, replicates the adenoviral genome. Theresulting error-prone DNA replication introduces mutations into the BOIgene at a high rate, thereby continuously generating mutant librariesfor selection. BOI variants are then expressed during viral infection ofthe human cell, and continuously tested for activity via a selectioncouple in which functional BOI variants induce higher levels of AdProtactivity stemming from an AdProt gene cassette installed in the humancells. Because AdProt activity is linked to the virus' capacity topropagate, functional BOI variants are continuously enriched in theevolving viral population, whereas non-functional BOI variants result innon-viable virions that cannot propagate.

Application of the platform is straightforward, such that genes encodinga BOI can be integrated into the adenoviral genome using Gateway cloning(Hartley J. L. et al., Genome Res. 10, 1788-1795, doi:DOI10.1101/gr.143000 (2000)), followed by plasmid transfection into aproducer cell line that constitutively expresses both AdPol and AdProtto generate a starter adenovirus population (FIG. 28). Directedevolution then simply involves serial passaging of the adenovirus onuser-defined ‘selector cells’.

In developing this platform, adenovirus was used rather than a nativelymutagenic RNA virus owing to adenovirus' relative safety, broad tropism,ease of manipulation, and capacity to propagate even under strongselection pressure. The adenoviruses used for directed evolutionexperiments were E1-, E3-, AdPol- and AdProt-deleted. All of these genesare required for adenoviral replication in the wild. Thus, the safety ofworking with these partially gutted adenoviruses is maximized as theycan only replicate in human cells that provide these essential genes intrans, and cannot replicate in unmodified human cells (Uil T. G. et al.,Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011); Elahi S. M. et al., Gene Ther. 9,1238-1246 (2002); Russell W. C., J. Gen. Virol. 81, 2573-2604 (2000)).Moreover, the removal of this large portion of the adenoviral genomemeans that genes as large as ˜7 kb can potentially be introduced andevolved in the platform. The broad tropism of adenovirus (Lucher L. A.,Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 199 (Pt 1), 119-152 (1995)) is beneficialbecause it means that directed evolution experiments can, in principle,be performed in many different human cell types depending on theobjective of a particular experiment. Finally, from a genome engineeringperspective, the optimized recombineering protocols allow the necessaryfacile manipulation of the adenoviral genome (Wang H. et al., NucleicAcids Res. 42, e37 (2014)).

Despite the manifold benefits of the choice to use adenovirus, thischoice presented significant challenges because both wild-type and eventhe previously reported error-prone AdPol variants (Uil T. G. et al.,Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011)) are relatively high fidelity, andtherefore unlikely to enable the creation of mutational libraries at asufficiently high rate to support continuous directed evolution of novelBOIs. To address this issue, EP-Pol was engineered, a highly mutagenicAdPol variant that pushes the adenoviral mutation rate into the regimeof RNA viruses such as HIV and influenza that are well-known to rapidlyevolve on laboratory timescales (Phillips A. M. et al., eLife 6, e28652(2017); Meyerhans A. et al., Cell 58, 901-910 (1989); O'Loughlin T. L.et al., Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 764-772 (2006)). Trans-complementation ofEP-Pol was used via constitutive expression in the host cell to preventreversion to wild-type AdPol that could occur if one modified anadenovirally encoded AdPol gene, thereby ensuring that mutagenicactivity remains at a constant, high level throughout directed evolutionexperiments.

This mutagenesis approach does introduce mutations into the adenoviralgenome outside the gene for the BOI that can potentially be negativelyselected and consequently reduce library size. The 6.5 kb genomic regionthat was sequenced (FIGS. 20A-20D) was chosen because it contained bothprotein coding regions necessary for adenoviral replication andnon-coding regions that should not face severe selection pressure.Comparing these domains across the sequenced region, only a two-folddifference was observed between the mutation rate in the inactivatedAdPol gene, which should not be under any selection pressure in thetrans-complementing system, and the neighboring pIX, IVa2, and pTPgenes, suggesting that such negative selection only impacts the mutationrate at most two-fold.

Because AdPol selectively replicates only adenoviral DNA, EP-Pol canonly introduce mutations into the adenoviral genome. This mutagenesistechnique thus represents an improvement over other strategies thatevolve genes directly in the human genome. In such strategies,off-target mutations can arise through basal or through the enhancedmutagenesis rates, which can subvert selection pressure and generatefalse positives. Furthermore, even recent mutagenesis methods thattarget specific genes within the human genome, by using somatichypermutation (Wang C. L. et al., Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 17, 659-664(2004); Wang L. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 16745-16749(2004)) or Cas9-fusion proteins (Ma Y. et al., Nat. Methods 13,1029-1035 (2016); Hess G. T. et al., Nat. Methods 13, 1036-1042 (2016);Komor A. C. et al., Nature 533, 420-424 (2016)), still displaysignificant off-target genetic modification (Meng F. L. et al., Cell159, 1538-1548 (2014); Kim D. et al., Nat. Biotechnol. 35, 475-480(2017); Wang C. L. et al., PNAS 101, 7352-7356 (2004)). Especially giventhe large size of the human genome, many pathways to cheating selectionmay be available. The use of an orthogonal replication system means thatthe human host cells are discarded and replaced with each passage,preventing mutation accumulation in the human cell that couldpotentially cheat selection pressure. This advantage, combined with themuch more rapid growth of adenovirus relative to human cells allowing alarger number of directed evolution rounds in a given time period,highlights the ability of the platform to quickly scan mutational spacewith minimal risk of selection subversion.

It was found that AdProt can serve as a robust selectable marker foradenovirus-mediated directed evolution in human cells. As an enzyme withcatalytic activity, one might not expect AdProt to exhibit a dynamicrange of selection. However, it was observed that AdProt was able tomodulate viral titers ˜10-fold in response to protease levels.Importantly, it was discovered that a small molecule inhibitor ofprotease could be easily used to further enhance this dynamic range toseveral orders of magnitude. It is noteworthy that the AdProt inhibitormay also be employed to actively fine-tune selection stringency over thecourse of a directed evolution experiment, simply by modulating thecompound's concentration in cell culture media.

AdProt-based selection was used to evolve transcriptionally activevariants of tTA that gained dox-resistance. Across two replicates of theexperiment, two different tTA variants ultimately fixed in thepopulation, both of which were indeed dox-resistant. A large number oflower frequency mutations were also observed at various passages abovethe 1% threshold for detection. The observation of these variantssuggests that the platform is effectively screening sequence space for aselective advantage, particularly as the vast majority of mutations areunlikely to ever attain a frequency of 1% in the evolving viralpopulation.

While this proof-of-concept experiment specifically highlights howAdProt-based selection could be used to evolve transcription factors,the platform should be readily generalizable to evolve a variety ofother biological functions. Indeed, examples of the necessary selectioncouples already exist for an assortment of protein classes, includingTALENs (Hubbard B. P. et al., Nat. Methods. 12, 939-942 (2015)),proteases (Dickinson B. C. et al., Nat. Commun. 5, 5352 (2014)),protein-protein interactions (Badran A. H. et al., Nature 533, 58-63(2016)), RNA polymerases (Esvelt K. M. et al., Nature 472, 499-503(2011); Carlson J. C. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol. 10, 216-222 (2014)),amino-acyl tRNA synthetases (Bryson D. I. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol. 13,1253-1260 (2017)), Cas9 (Hu J. H. et al., Nature 556, 57-63 (2018)), andbeyond.

Looking forward, there are a number of improvements that would furtherenhance this platform's practicability and applicability. The currentsystem relies on serial passaging of adenovirus on adherent cells.Transitioning to suspension cells would enable variant libraries severalorders of magnitude larger than one can currently explore. Theintegration of emerging targeted mutagenesis techniques, such as MutaT7(Moore C. L. et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b04001(2018)), could further focus mutations only to the BOI gene and alsoincrease mutation library size. Additionally, the present system is onlycapable of positive selection. Implementation of a negative selectionstrategy would enable the platform to evolve biomolecules that are moreselective and specific for a given activity. Phage-assisted continuousevolution in bacteria can afford larger library sizes with more tunablemutation rates, in addition to dynamic selections that occur on theorder of hours, not days (Esvelt K. M. et al., Nature 472, 499-503(2011)). Critically, while adenovirus-mediated directed evolutionexplores mutational space more slowly than phage-assisted continuousevolution, it makes possible similar experiments in the metazoan cellenvironment for the first time.

The platform offers several advantages relative to extant strategies forhuman cell-based directed evolution that rely on time-intensive screensand extensive in vitro manipulations. The use of adenovirus allowsresearchers to continuously mutate, select, and amplify genes ofinterest by simply transferring viral supernatant from one cell plate tothe next. Owing to this simple viral passaging protocol, library sizesare restricted only by a researcher's tissue culture capacity. Cheatingis minimized because mutations are specifically directed to the viralgenome. Safety is maximized because the adenoviruses used lack multiplegenes required for replication in the wild. Moreover, the user-definednature of the selector cell and the broad tropism of adenovirus type 5enable directed evolution to be performed in a diverse array of humancell types.

By making it possible for researchers to evolve diverse BOI functions inthe same environment in which the BOIs are intended to function, thishuman cell-based directed evolution platform holds significant potentialto enable researchers to rapidly evolve a wide variety of biomoleculesin human cells. Thus, this method should impact not just the developmentof new tools for research, but also the understanding of metazoanevolutionary biology and the ability to rapidly generate effectivebiomolecular therapeutics.

Example 13. Materials and Methods for Examples 14-16

Vectors and Cloning

Materials:

All enzymes were obtained from New England BioLabs unless statedotherwise. All primers were obtained from either ThermoFisher or SigmaAldrich. Gene blocks were obtained from Integrated DNA Technologies. Allprimers are listed in TABLE 11. AdGLΔPol was constructed as previouslydescribed (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011)).

Adenoviral Cloning:

Adenoviral constructs were engineered using ccdB recombineering, aspreviously described (Wang H. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37(2014)), in DH10B E. coli carrying the Adenovirus type 5 genome in achloramphenicol-resistant bacterial artificial chromosome (AdBAC). Cellscarrying an AdBAC were transformed with the temperature-sensitivepsc101-gbaA recombineering plasmid (Wang H. et al., Nucleic Acids Res.42, e37 (2014)), plated on LB (Difco) agar (Alfa Aesar) with 10 μg/mLtetracycline (CalBioChem) and 10 μg/mL chloramphenicol (Alfa Aesar), andincubated for 24 h at 30° C. Colonies were selected and grown in LBcontaining 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mL chloramphenicol overnightat 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnight cultures were diluted 25-fold in LB with10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mL chloramphenicol and grown at 30° C.for ˜2 h until attaining an OD₆₀₀ of 0.3-0.4. The ccdA antitoxin andrecombineering machinery were then induced by adding L-arabinose(Chem-Impex) and L-rhamnose (Sigma Aldrich) to a final concentration of2 mg/mL each and then growing the cultures at 37° C. for 40 min to anOD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures were then placed on ice, washed twice withice-cold, sterile ddH2O, resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterileddH2O, and electroporated with ˜200 ng of the appropriate kan-ccdBtargeting cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms, 0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser).The cells were then recovered in super optimal broth with cataboliterepression (SOC; Teknova) with 2 mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h,then plated on LB agar plates with 50 μg/mL kanamycin (Alfa Aesar) and 2mg/mL L-arabinose and incubated for 24 h at 30° C. Colonies that grewunder these conditions had incorporated the kan-ccdB targeting cassetteand were picked in triplicate and grown in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycinand 2 mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 18-21 h. (Note: The colonies werepicked in triplicate because multimers of the AdBAC formed at a highrate (˜30-50% of colonies) during the first recombineering step. Thesemultimers are unable to be successfully recombineered in the next step.Picking three colonies and recombineering them separately in parallelincreases the chances of picking a monomer that can be successfullyrecombineered.) The cultures were then diluted 25-fold in LB with 50μg/mL kanamycin and 2 mg/mL L-arabinose and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 huntil they reached an OD₆₀₀ of 0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery wasthen induced by adding L-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mLand then growing the cultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6.The cultures were then placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold,sterile ddH2O, resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O, andelectroporated with ˜200 ng of the final targeting cassette intended toreplace the kan-ccdB cassette currently integrated in the genome (1.8kV, 5.8 ms, 0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were thenrecovered in SOC with 2 mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, and thenwere washed once with LB to remove the L-arabinose and prevent continuedproduction of the ccdA antitoxin. The cultures were then plated on LBagar plates at various dilutions with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and incubated for 24 h at 37° C. Without the ccdAantitoxin, the ccdB toxin will kill cells that have not replaced theintegrated kan-ccdB cassette with the final targeting cassette. Thecolonies that grow should have the final targeting cassette integrated,but were screened by PCR or sequencing to confirm cassette integrationas some colonies may simply inactivate the ccdB toxin.

Once a clone with all of the desired genetic changes was found andconfirmed by Sanger sequencing, the AdBAC single-copy replication originwas replaced with the high copy pUC origin. The cells with the correctclone were grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnight cultures werediluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining an OD₆₀₀ of0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced by addingL-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH2O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the pUC origin cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms, 0.1 cm cuvette,BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recovered in SOC at 30° C. for2 h, then plated on LB agar plates with 100 μg/mL ampicillin andincubated for 24 h at 37° C. The resulting ampicillin-resistant coloniesshould have the pUC origin inserted and were checked by verifyingexpected restriction digestion patterns. The colonies were grown in 25mL LB containing 100 μg/mL ampicillin and the DNA was purified using theZymoPURE II plasmid midiprep kit (Zymo Research) according to themanufacturer's instructions. The DNA was digested with PacI overnight at37° C. in order to liberate and linearize the adenoviral genome. Thelinearized DNA was purified using the E.Z.N.A. cycle pure kit (OmegaBio-tek) according to the manufacturer's instructions.

All adenoviruses were generated from a parent Ad5.CFP vector derivedfrom pAd/CMV/V5-DEST (ThermoFisher). The following modifications inTABLE 10 were made using primers in TABLE 11 to obtain the adenovirusesin TABLE 8.

Wild-Type AdPol and EP-Pol Vectors:

The lentiviral vector encoding HA-tagged wild-type AdPol was previouslydescribed (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011)).Mutations were introduced by site-directed mutagenesis. These vectorswere used to make all cell lines described in this study (TABLE 9).

E2A Expression Vector:

The pcDNA3-derived vector containing the E2A gene was digested with KpnIand XhoI and inserted into pENTR1A to form pENTR1A.E2A. The E2A gene wasthen recombined into pLenti. CMV.Hygro.DEST (w117-1) (Addgene) using LRClonase II Enzyme Mix (ThermoFisher) to form pLenti.CMV.E2A (Campeau E.et al., PLoS One, 4, e6529 (2009)).

pVI Expression Vector:

A 781 bp fragment containing the pVI gene was amplified from the HAd5genome using primers pVI.BamHI F and pVI.SalI R (TABLE 11) and insertedinto pTRE-Tight (Takara Bio) using BamHI and SalI to formpTRE-Tight.pVI. A 236 bp fragment containing the Ad5 Tripartite leadersequence (TPL) was amplified from the TPL gene block using primersTPL.pVI GA F and TPL.pVI GA R (TABLE 11), and the 3293 bp pTRE-Tight.pVIwas amplified using primers TRE.pVI GA F and TRE.pVI GA R (TABLE 8).These fragments were assembled using NEB HiFi Master Mix to formpTRE-Tight.TPL.pVI. pTRE-Tight.TPL.pVI was digested using NotI and XbaIand inserted into pENTR1A to form pENTR1A.TPLpVI. The TPL.pVI gene wasthen recombined into pLenti.CMV.Hygro.DEST (w117-1) using LR Clonase IIEnzyme Master Mix to form pLenti.CMV. TPL.pVI.

Fiber Expression Vector:

A 1773 bp fragment containing the fiber gene was amplified from the Had5genome using primers Fiber.BamHI F and Fiber. SalI R (TABLE 11) andinserted into pTRE-Tight using BamHI and SalI to form pTRE-Tight.Fiber.A 234 bp fragment containing the TPL was amplified from the TPL geneblock using primers TPL.Fiber GA F and TPL.Fiber GA R (TABLE 11), andthe 4497 bp pTRE-Tight.Fiber was amplified using primers TRE.Fiber GA Fand TRE.Fiber GA R (TABLE 11). These fragments were assembled using NEBHiFI Master Mix to form pTRE-Tight.TPL.Fiber. A 1983 bp fragmentcontaining TPL.Fiber was amplified using primers NotI.TPL F andXbaI.Fiber R (TABLE 11) and inserted into pENTR1A using NotI and XbaI toform pENTR1A.TPL.Fiber. The TPL.Fiber gene was then recombined intopLenti.CMV.Hygro.Dest (w117-1) using LR Clonase II Enzyme Master Mix toform pLenti.CMV.TPL.Fiber.

Protease Expression Vector:

A 641 bp fragment containing adenoviral protease (prot) was amplifiedfrom the Ad5 genome using primers BamHI.AdProt F and SalI.AdProt R(TABLE 11) and ligated into pTRE-Tight using BamHI and SalI to make thepTRE-Tight.AdProt vector. The TPL was amplified from the TPL gene blockusing primers TPL. GA F and TPL.AdProt GA R (TABLE 11), and thepTRE-Tight.AdProt vector was amplified using primers TRE.AdProt GA F andTRE.AdProt GA R (TABLE 11). These fragments were assembled using the NEBHiFi assembly kit to create the pTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProt vector. From thisvector, an 852 bp fragment containing TPL.AdProt was amplified usingprimers NotI.TPL F and XbaI.AdProt.R (TABLE 11) and inserted into thepENTR1A vector using NotI and XbaI. The TPL.AdProt gene was thenrecombined into pLenti.CMV.Hygro (w117-1) using LR clonase II EnzymeMaster Mix to form pLenti.CMV.TPL.AdProt.

Cell Culture and Lentivirus Transduction

Cell Culture:

All cells were cultured at 37° C. and 5% CO₂. All cell lines werederived from a parent HEK293A cell line (ATCC) and cultured inDulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM; Cellgro) supplemented with 10%fetal bovine serum (FBS; Cellgro), 1% penicillin-streptomycin (Cellgro),and 1% L-glutamine (Cellgro). Cell lines that express the selectiongenes (E2A, pVI, fiber, or AdProt) were cultured in 50 μg/mL hygromycin(Thermo Fisher) to stably maintain transgenes.

Generation of Cell Lines by Lentiviral Transduction:

In a typical protocol, ˜9×10⁶ 293FT cells were plated on apoly-D-lysine-coated 10 cm dish. The next day, the cells wereco-transfected with plasmids from the previously describedthird-generation packaging system (Dull T. et al., J. Virol. 72,8463-8471 (1998)): 15 μg RRE, 6 μg REV, 3 g VSVG, and 15 μg transfervector using 60 μL Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher). Cultures weremaintained in 5 mL total volume of OPTI-MEM (Gibco) throughout thetransfection. After 8 h, the media was exchanged for fresh DMEM. After48 h, media was harvested and centrifuged for 5 min at 162×g to clearthe cell debris. The supernatant was used to transduce HEK293A cellssupplemented with 4 μg/mL polybrene (Sigma). After 24 h, the media wasexchanged for fresh DMEM. After 48 h, media was exchanged again for DMEMcontaining 50 μg/mL hygromycin to select stable cell lines (as indicatedabove).

Determination of the Mutagenic Potential of EP-Pol:

The mutagenic potential of EP-Pol was evaluated following a previouslyreported protocol (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30(2011)). Briefly, a polymerase-deleted Ad5, AdGLΔAdPol, was subjected to10 serial passages on cultures of 911 cells expressing EP-Pol in orderto accumulate mutations. After 10 serial passages, 911 cells expressingwild-type AdPol were infected in a 6-well plate at ˜50 plaque-formingunits/well in order to amplify pools of 50 viral clones for sequencing.Using pools of 50 or fewer clonal viruses ensures that mutations presentin only one clone will be present at a frequency above the threshold ofdetection. From each 50-clone viral pool, a 6.5 kb fragment wasamplified and prepared for deep sequencing. Libraries were subjected to32 cycles of single-read sequencing by an Illumina Genome Analyzer II(GA-II).

Immunoblotting:

50 μg of protein lysate was separated on a 10% SDS-PAGE polyacrylamidegel and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. EP-Pol and actinprotein levels were detected using an a-HA (Santa Cruz; sc-7392) orα-actin antibody (Sigma; A1978) as indicated. Fiber was detected usingan α-fiber antibody (Thermo Fisher; 4D2). pVI was detected using anα-pVI monoclonal antibody obtained as a generous gift from Dr. HaraldWodrich (Université Bordeaux) (Martinez R. et al., J. Virol., 89,2121-2135 (2015)).

RT-qPCR:

cDNA was made from 1 μg of purified RNA using the High Capacity cDNAReverse Transcription Kit (Applied Biosystems). qPCR was run for E2A(primers: E2AL and E2AR), AdProt (primers: AdProt L and AdProt R), andRPLP2 (primers RPLP2 L and RPLP2 F) (TABLE 11) on a LightCycler 480 II(Roche) to confirm expression.

Generating Adenovirus from Transfection:

All adenoviruses were produced by transfecting a PacI-linearized vectorinto appropriate trans-complementing HEK293A cells. Briefly, 24 μg ofPacI-digested adenovirus vectors transfected with 144 μL PEI, 1 mLOptiMEM (Gibco) into a 15 cm plate of the corresponding cell line (10million cells). Media was replaced 8 h after transfection. Media wasthen intermittently replaced every 2-3 days until plaques were observed(typically ˜3 weeks). Once plaques were observed, CPE was observed inall cells within 5 d. Upon complete CPE, the cells and media wereharvested, and then frozen at −80° C. for at least 30 min and thenthawed at 37° C. for 15 min for three total freeze/thaw cycles. The celldebris was removed by centrifugation at >1,462×g for 15 min and thesupernatant was moved to a new Eppendorf tube and stored at −80° C.until use.

Trans-Complementation Assays:

The day before beginning the assay, a 6-well plate was seeded with ˜10⁶of the indicated cells. The next day, individual wells were infectedwith the indicated adenoviruses at a low multiplicity of infection(<0.5) in order to enable observation of the presence or absence of aspreading infection. The AdPol trans-complementation assay (FIGS.30A-30D) was monitored using an Olympus U-TB190 microscope and theCFP.ΔAdPol.GFP adenovirus. The AdProt/AdPol double trans-complementationassay (FIG. 25) was monitored using a Nikon Eclipse TE200 microscope andthe ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenovirus.

TABLE 10 Modifications to adenoviral vectors. Final targeting KanccdBcassette primers cassette oligos or used with R6K-kan-ccdB primers andtemplate plasmid (unless template (if Purpose of Modification Genotypestated otherwise) applicable) modification AdPol deletion ΔAdPoldelAdPol ccdb F and delAdPol F and To prevent evolution delAdPol ccdb RdelAdPol R of the adenoviral polymerase. The error-prone version wasexpressed in trans E2A1 deletion ΔE2A1 E2A1 ccdb F and E2A1 ccdb R E2A1F and E2A1 R Deletion to make selectable marker E2A2 deletion ΔE2A2 E2A2ccdb F and E2A2 ccdb E2A2 F and E2A2 R Deletion to make selectablemarker Fiber deletion ΔFib delFib ccdb F and delFib ccdb R delFib F anddelFib R Deletion to make selectable marker AdProt deletion ΔprotdelAdProt ccdb F and delAdProt F and Deletion to make delAdProt ccdb RdelAdProt R selectable marker Insertion of eGFP E4R-eGFP E4 ccdb F andE4 ccdb R E4 SV40 F and E4 Visualization and SV40 R maintenance ofgenome size Replacement of N/A N/A, the replacement is a BAC2pUC F andHigh copy origin to the low copy one-step recombineering BAC2pUC R usedallow for the BAC origin with since the origin switches from to amplifythe pUC preparation of the high copy chloramphenicol to ampicillinorigin from concentrated, purified pUC origin resistant pAd/CMV/V5- DNAfor transfection DEST and adenoviral production

TABLE 11 Primers used in this study. Name Sequence - 5′ to 3′ SEQ ID NO:delAdPol ccdb F TCCCGCGCTTCTTGGAACTTTACATTGTGGGCCACAACA 102TCAACGGCCCTCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG delAdPol ccdb RGGCACCTCGGAACGGTTGTTAATTACCTGGGCGGCGAGC 103 ACGATCTCGTCCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCdelAdPol F GCGCGGCCTTCCGGAGCGAGGTGTGGGTGAGCGCAAAG 104GTGTCCCTGACCATGACCAGCATGAAGGGCACGAGCTG CTTCCCAAAGGCCCCCATCCAAGdelAdPol R CTTGGATGGGGGCCTTTGGGAAGCAGCTCGTGCCCTTCA 105TGCTGGTCATGGTCAGGGACACCTTTGCGCTCACCCACA CCTCGCTCCGGAAGGCCGCGCE2A1 ccdb F ACCATTTGTAGCGCCACATCTTCTCTTTCTTCCTCGCTGT 106CCACGATTACCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E2A1 ccdb RAGAGGAGCAGCGCGAAACCACCCCCGAGCGCGGACGCG 107 GTGCGGCGCGACCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE2A1 F ACCATTTGTAGCGCCACATCTTCTCTTTCTTCCTCGCTGT 108CCACGATTACGTCGCGCCGCACCGCGTCCGCGCTCGGGG GTGGTTTCGCGCTGCTCCTCT E2A1 RAGAGGAGCAGCGCGAAACCACCCCCGAGCGCGGACGCG 109GTGCGGCGCGACGTAATCGTGGACAGCGAGGAAGAAAG AGAAGATGTGGCGCTACAAATGGTE2A2 ccdb F CTCCACAGGCTGCGCACCATCACCAACGCGTTTAGCAGG 110TCGGGCGCCGACCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E2A2 ccdb RCCCCAACCATGGAGGACGTGTCGTCCCCGTCCCCGTCGC 111 CGCCGCCTCCCCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE2A2 F CTCCACAGGCTGCGCACCATCACCAACGCGTTTAGCAGG 112TCGGGCGCCGAGGGAGGCGGCGGCGACGGGGACGGGG ACGACACGTCCTCCATGGTTGGGG E2A2 RCCCCAACCATGGAGGACGTGTCGTCCCCGTCCCCGTCGC 113CGCCGCCTCCCTCGGCGCCCGACCTGCTAAACGCGTTGG TGATGGTGCGCAGCCTGTGGAGdelpVI ccdb F TAAAAAGTCTGGACTCTCACGCTCGCTTGGTCCTGTAAC 114TATTTTGTAGACCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG delpVI ccdb RTCTGGCGGCGACATGGACGCATACATGACACACATACG 115 ACACGTTAGCTACCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCdelpVI F ATAAAAAGTCTGGACTCTCACGCTCGCTTGGTCCTGTAA 116CTATTTTGTAGATAGCTAACGTGTCGTATGTGTGTCATGT ATGCGTCCATGTCGCCGCCAG delpVI RTCTGGCGGCGACATGGACGCATACATGACACACATACG 117ACACGTTAGCTATCTACAAAATAGTTACAGGACCAAGCG AGCGTGAGAGTCCAGACTTTTTAdelFib ccdb F TTTCCTCCTGTTCCTGTCCATCCGCACCCACTATCTTCAT 118GTTGTTGCAGCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG delFib ccdb RTGGCAAATATTTCATTAATGTAGTTGTGGCCAGACCAGT 119 CCCATGAAAATCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCdelFib F TTTCCTCCTGTTCCTGTCCATCCGCACCCACTATCTTCAT 120GTTGTTGCAGATTTTCATGGGACTGGTCTGGCCACAACT ACATTAATGAAATATTTGCCA delFib RTGGCAAATATTTCATTAATGTAGTTGTGGCCAGACCAGT 121CCCATGAAAATCTGCAACAACATGAAGATAGTGGGTGC GGATGGACAGGAACAGGAGGAAAdelAdProt ccdb F GGCAACGCCACAACATAAAGAAGCAAGCAACATCAACA 122ACAGCTGCCGCCCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG delAdProt ccdb RTACAAATAAAAGCATTTGCCTTTATTGAAAGTGTCTCTA 123 GTACATTATTTCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCdelAdProt F GGCAACGCCACAACATAAAGAAGCAAGCAACATCAACA 124ACAGCTGCCGCCAAATAATGTACTAGAGACACTTTCAAT AAAGGCAAATGCTTTTATTTGTAdelAdProt R TACAAATAAAAGCATTTGCCTTTATTGAAAGTGTCTCTA 125GTACATTATTTGGCGGCAGCTGTTGTTGATGTTGCTTGCT TCTTTATGTTGTGGCGTTGCC E4 ccdb FCAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTT 126TCCCACGTTACCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E4 ccdb RAGTAACTTGTATGTGTTGGGAATTGTAGTTTTCTTAAAAT 127 GGGAAGTGACCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE4 SV40 F CAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTT 128TCCCACGTTACTTCTGTGGAATGTGTGTCAGTTAGGG E4 SV40 RAGTAACTTGTATGTGTTGGGAATTGTAGTTTTCTTAAAAT 129GGGAAGTGACCTCTAGCTAGAGGTCGACGGTATAC BAC2pUC F CCCGGGAATTCGGATCTGC 130BAC2pUC R CCGGGAATTCGGATCCTTGAAGAC 131 pVI.BamHI FAAAAAAGGATCCACCATGGAAGACATCAACTTTGCGTC 132 pVI.SalI RAAAAAAGTCGACTCAGAAGCATCGTCGGC 133 TPL.pVI GA FATCGCCTGGAGAATTCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCT 134 TPL.pVI GA RAAAGTTGATGTCTTCCATTGCGACTGTGACTGGTTAG 135 TRE.pVI GA FATGGAAGACATCAACTTTGC 136 TRE.pVI GA R GAATTCTCCAGGCGATCTG 137Fiber.BamHI F AAAAAAGGATCCACCATGAAGCGCGC 138 Fiber.SalI RAAAAAAGTCGACTTATTCTTGGGCAATGTATGAAAAAGT 139 G TPL. GA FATCGCCTGGAGAATTCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCT 140 TPL.Fiber GA RGTCTTGCGCGCTTCATTGCGACTGTGACTGGTTAG 141 TRE.Fiber GA FATGAAGCGCGCAAGACCG 142 TRE.Fiber GA R GAATTCTCCAGGCGATCTGAC 143NotI.TPL F AAAAAAGCGGCCGCACTCTCTTCCGCATCG 144 XbaI.Fiber RAAAAAATCTAGATTATTCTTGGGCAATGTATGAAAAAGT 145 G BamHI.AdProt FAAAAAAGGATCCACCATGGGCTCCAGTGAG 146 SalI.AdProt RAAAAAGTCGACTTACATGTTTTTCAAGTGACAAAAAGAA 147 G TPL.AdProt GA RATCTAGAGCCGGCGCTTACATGTTTTTCAAGTGACAAAA 148 AGAAG TRE.AdProt GA FATGGGCTCCAGTGAGCAG 149 TRE.AdProt GA R GAATTCTCCAGGCGATCTG 150XbaI.Prot R AAAAAATCTAGATTACATGTTTTTCAAGTGACAAAAAGA 151 AG E2A LAGACCTGGCTGAACGAGGAG 152 E2A R TGGGCTCGTGATGCTTGTAG 153 AdProt LGGGTACCCAACTCCATGCTC 154 AdProt R AAGTGGCGCTCCTAATCTGC 155 RPLP2 FCCATTCAGCTCACTGATAACCTTG 156 RPLP2 R CGTCGCCTCCTACCTGCT 157

Example 14. Mutagenesis System and Adenoviral DNA PolymeraseTrans-Complementation

Directed evolution methodologies have transformed our ability togenerate biomolecules with improved or novel functionalities (Packer M.S. and Liu D. R., Nat. Rev. Genet. 16, 379-394 (2015); Gai S. A. andWittrup K. D., Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 17, 467-473 (2007); Romero P.A. and Arnold F. H., Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 10 (2009); Shaner N. C.et al., Nat. Biotechnol. 22, 1567-1572 (2004); Branon, T. C. et al.,Nat. Biotechnol. (2018); Arzumanyan G. A., et al. ACS Synth. Biol. 7,1722-1729 (2018)). The majority of directed evolution experiments areperformed in test tubes, bacteria, or yeast. While these strategies canbe successful, they frequently lead to products that fail to functionoptimally when later introduced into complex metazoan systems. Theevolved functions can be derailed by such problems as off-targetinteractions, poor protein folding or stability, pleiotropic outputs,mistrafficking, chemical modification, or other serious problems thatarise because the biomolecules were discovered and optimized in overlysimplistic environments (Zetsche B. et al., Cell 163, 759-771 (2015);Peck S. H. et al., Chem. Biol. 18, 619-630 (2011); Piatkevich K. D. etal., Nat. Chem. Biol. 14, 352-360 (2018)). This challenge could be mostdirectly addressed by leveraging the human cell itself as the design,engineering, and quality control factory for directed evolution-mediatedbiomolecule discovery and optimization.

Extant strategies for directed evolution in human cells rely almostentirely on fluorescent screens to identify active biomolecule variants.The most common technique is in vitro plasmid mutagenesis followed bytransfection and screening (Banaszynski L. A. et al., Cell 126, 995-1004(2006)). This approach is slow, labor-intensive, and significantlyconstrains library sizes. Other methods include in vivo mutagenesisthrough somatic hypermutation in immune cells followed by fluorescentscreening, or the use of robotic cell-picking techniques to morecomprehensively screen for desired phenotypes across multiple dimensions(e.g., both intensity and localization of a fluorescent signal)(Piatkevich K. D. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol. 14, 352-360,doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0004-9 (2018); Wang C. L. et al., Protein Eng.Des. Sel. 17, 659-664 (2004); Wang L. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA, 2004. 101(48): p. 16745-49 (2004)). These methods, while valuable,are still slow, inefficient, limited to fluorescent readouts forselection, and have limited library sizes (˜10⁵ variants for the mostrecent robotic platform) (Piatkevich K. D. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol. 14,352-360, doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0004-9 (2018)). Another development hasbeen the use of cytidine deaminase fused to Cas9 variants to introducemutations into endogenous genes in human cells, followed by selecting orscreening for desired phenotypes (Ma Y et al., Nat. Methods 13,1029-1035, doi:10.1038/nmeth.4027 (2016); Hess G. T. et al., Nat.Methods 13, 1036-1042, doi:10.1038/nmeth.4038 (2016); Komor A. C. etal., Nature 533, 420-424 (2016)). However, this approach requires thedesign and synthesis of many guide RNAs to tile along regions ofinterest, which requires guide RNAs to be redesigned as mutationsaccumulate. Moreover, directed evolution achieved via in vivomutagenesis of the human genome is limited by the slow growth rate ofhuman cells and the high potential for false positives (“cheating”)associated with any strategy that relies on cell selection or screeningin a background of overexpression of DNA-damaging enzymes.

A broadly useful human cell-based directed evolution platform requiresseveral critical features: (1) large mutational libraries expressed inthe human cell; (2) selection schemes providing a broad dynamic rangefor selection and minimal opportunities for cheating; (3) capacity toevolve multiple biomolecule functions; (4) applicability across multiplecell types; and (5) ideally, a minimal need for experimenterintervention during evolution experiments.

Prior efforts have coupled biomolecule function to viral replicationusing HIV or bacteriophage (Das A. T. et al., J. Biol. Chem. 279(18): p.18776-82 (2004); Esvelt K. M. et al., Nature. 472(7344): p. 499-503(2011)). However, HIV-based strategies suffer from an inability of thevirus to propagate under strong selection pressure or in most celltypes, and also raise safety concerns surrounding large-scale HIVculture. The M13 bacteriophage used in phage-assisted continuousevolution provides large mutational libraries and enables rapid roundsof continuous mutagenesis and selection for biomolecules carrying outdiverse functions, but only permits directed evolution in bacterialcells.

With these parameters and challenges in mind, this study was directed atdevising a broadly useful, human cell-based directed evolution platform.It was hypothesized that adenovirus type-5 would be a practical vectorfor directed evolution of biomolecules in human cells, owing to itsgenetic tractability and broadly infectious nature in many human celltypes (Lucher L. A. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 199 (Pt 1), 119-152(1995); Amalfitano A. and Chamberlain J. S., Gene Ther. 4, 258-263(1997)). Conceptually, if the replication of a highly mutagenicadenovirus somehow depended on the activity of a biomolecule of interest(BOI) encoded in the adenoviral genome, then a simple directed evolutionscheme for evolving diverse BOI functions in human cells could befeasible.

To achieve this concept, the essential adenoviral DNA polymerase (AdPol)and protease (AdProt) genes were deleted from an adenoviral genome thatalso encoded the BOI for evolution (FIG. 19A). The resulting partiallygutted adenovirus is incapable of replication outside engineered humancells. The missing AdPol was trans-complemented by constitutiveexpression, within human cells, of a newly engineered and highlymutagenic AdPol variant to enable the generation of large mutationallibraries during viral replication. AdProt expression in the human cellswas then engineered to depend conditionally upon BOI function (FIG.19B). Directed evolution experiments in this system, at least in theory,then relies on simply serially passaging the BOI-encoding adenoviruswhile mutagenesis and selection continuously occur (FIG. 19C).

Here, the approach to overcoming the above challenges is described.Described herein is a mutagenesis platform that harnesses adenovirus'own replication system to generate diverse mutational libraries fordirected evolution. This platform was engineered to minimize thelikelihood of selection subversion due to host cell mutagenesis orfluctuations in the mutation rate. Numerous genes were tested fortrans-complementation in order to establish a viable selection platform.It was ultimately found that the adenovirus protease gene (AdProt) couldbe used as a selectable marker for evolving BOIs. Together, theestablishment and validation of both the mutagenesis platform andselection platform comprise the main components necessary foradenovirus-mediated directed evolution in human cells.

First, an adenoviral replication system was devised that would be highlyerror-prone to more efficiently generate mutational libraries fordirected evolution. Adenovirus is a double-stranded, non-enveloped DNAvirus that relies on its own DNA polymerase (AdPol) for genomereplication (Hoeben R. C. and Uil T. G., Cold Spring Harb. Perspect.Biol. 5, a013003 (2013)). The high fidelity wild-type AdPol is, however,incapable of supporting a laboratory-timescale directed evolutionexperiment. Previous studies identified two amino acid substitutions inadenoviral polymerase, F421Y and D827A, that can individually lower thefidelity of AdPol while still enabling efficient replication (Uil T. G.et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 2011. 39(5): e30). Based on the crystalstructure of the homologous Φ29 phage DNA polymerase, the F421Y andD827A mutations likely affect distinct aspects of polymerase fidelity(FIG. 20A) (Kamtekar S. et al., Mol. Cell 16, 609-618 (2004)). In Φ29DNA polymerase, the homologous residue to F421, F65, is in theproofreading domain, forms van der waals contacts with multiple bases inthe ssDNA and likely stabilizes the strand for exonuclease activity (deVega M. et al., J. Mol. Biol., 279, 807-822 (1998)). Mutating F65 totyrosine (F65Y) in t129 DNA polymerase was shown to reduce exonucleaseactivity by over 10-fold, and doubled the rate of base misincorporation.While Φ29 DNA polymerase does not have a homologous residue to D827, inPfu DNA polymerase, the homologous residue to D827, D473, is in thefingers domain. D473 forms an extensive hydrogen bonding network withmultiple adjacent residues (Biles B. D. and Connolly B. A., NucleicAcids Res., 32, e176-e176 (2004)). Mutagenesis of D473 likely makes thefingers domain more flexible, reducing the geometric selection on theincoming nucleotide in the enzyme binding pocket. It was hypothesizedthat combining these two mutations to create the F421Y/D827Adouble-mutant, which we termed error-prone AdPol (or EP-Pol), wouldallow us to further increase the mutation rate while still supportingrobust adenovirus propagation.

One concern with using the F421Y/D827ΔAdPol double mutant (error-proneadenoviral polymerase; EP-Pol), is that random mutations may arise inthe AdPol gene itself (Smith J. G., Methods Mol. Biol., 1382, 187-196(2016)). There may even be selection pressure for EP-Pol to mutate itsown gene to increase its fidelity. To avoid this possibility, atrans-complementation system was established, whereby the wild-typeAdPol is inactivated from the adenoviral genome by excision of 571nucleotides, and EP-Pol is expressed in the human cell.Trans-complementation of EP-Pol potentially affords the opportunity tomanipulate the mutation rate in the system by altering the AdPol variantused without having to further engineer the adenoviral genome during adirected evolution experiment.

The first step in creating an AdPol trans-complementation system was todelete AdPol from the adenoviral genome. Owing to the large size of theadenoviral genome, a recombination-based cloning approach was used tomake seamless deletions and insertions in the adenoviral genome. Thisapproach, termed AdEasy, was previously used to engineer AdPol-deletedadenoviral genomes for trans-complementation studies (Uil T. G. et al.,Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011); Luo J. et al., A protocol forrapid generation of recombinant adenoviruses using the AdEasy system,Nat. Protoc., 2, 1236-1247 (2007)). AdEasy requires large, 500 bphomology arms to recombine a nucleotide region of interest in anengineered Escherichia coli cell line termed BJ5183 cells. Attempted atdesigning the recombination cassette for AdPol deletion via overlapextension PCR were unsuccessful even after extensive efforts andoptimization.

Therefore an alternative recombination-based cloning approach was used,termed lambda-red recombineering, which requires much shorted 30-50 bphomology arms (Sharan S. K. et al., Nat. Protoc., 4, 206-223 (2009);Landy A., Annu. Rev. Biochem., 58, 913-949 (1989)). Lambda-redrecombineering requires a counterselectable marker to select forseamless recombinations. Our prior work utilized a galK counterselectionscheme in concert with a DH10B-derived E. coli cell line that wasauxotrophic for galactose (Warming S. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 33,e36 (2005)). However, it was found the auxotrophic positive selection tobe too slow and too weak for reliably selecting positive recombinants.Both positive and negative selection steps require growth for three daysfor colonies to appear. Also, while we were able to recombine using thegalK counterselectable marker, we frequently found that after thenegative selection step, the parent sequence would reappear, indicatingthat the first recombination step was too weak to reliably select forgalK-only constructs.

We next transitioned to an alternative counterselection scheme thatrelies on the ccdB/ccdA toxin/antitoxin system (FIG. 29) (Wang H. etal., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)). In this approach, thepSC101-gbaA plasmid that encodes for the ccdA antitoxin andrecombineering machinery (induced by L-arabinose and L-rhamnoserespectively) is introduced into a DH10B cell line along with abacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) encoding the adenoviral genome. Akanamycin (kan)-ccdB selection/counterselection marker is then targetedto the desired locus in the adenoviral genome using 30-50 bp homologyarms that are introduced by PCR primer overhangs. Induction of therecombineering machinery incorporates the marker into the adenoviralgenome using the homology arms and resulting in the induction of ccdA toprevent the ccdB toxin from killing the cell. The cells are then platedon kan to positively select for recombinants carrying the kan-ccdBmarker. In the next step, the targeting cassette is produced withhomology arms that flank the kan-ccdB marker. Genes of interest can beplaced between homology arms of the targeting cassette to insert genesinto the adenoviral genome, or the homology arms can be directly fusedtogether to produce a deletion in the adenoviral genome. The kan-ccdBmarker is replaced by the targeting cassette upon induction of therecombineering machinery. Counterselection against the kan-ccdB markeris performed by not inducing the ccdA antitoxin, such that only cellsthat successfully replace the kan-ccdB marker with the targetingcassette will survive.

It was found that the optimized recombineering approach outlined abovefacilitated consistent seamless deletions, insertions, and mutations atany location in the adenoviral genome. Recombineering was first used tomake a 571 nt deletion in Ad5.CFP (see TABLE 8 for adenovirus constructsused in this study) that inactivates the AdPol gene without affectingany known splice sites within the AdPol coding sequence (Uil T. G. etal., Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011)). eGFP was also inserted intothe E4 region with rightward facing orientation (E4R) to maintain theproper genome size to allow for efficient viral production, and to serveas an additional fluorophore for visualization of infection (Bett A. J.et al., J. Virol., 67, 5911-5921 (1993)). Placing transgenes in the E4Rregion was shown to allow for optimal transgene expression and viraltiter (Suzuki M. et al., Gene Ther. 22, 421-429 (2015)).

The next component required for the EP-Pol trans-complementation systemwas an EP-Pol-expressing human cell line. HEK293A cells were stablytransduced with hemagglutinin-epitope (HA)-tagged wild-type AdPol orHA-tagged EP-Pol to support ΔAdPol-adenovirus replication, and singlecolonies were isolated (for a list of cell lines used in this study, seeTABLE 9). Expression of AdPol was analyzed via Western blot detection ofthe HA-tagged construct (FIG. 30A). Two single colonies were found thatexpressed either wild-type AdPol or EP-Pol, and further experiments wereperformed with these cells.

TABLE 8 Adenoviruses constructed and used in this study. NameModifications relative to wild-type Ad5 Ad5.CFP E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3CFP.ΔAdPol.GFP E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol E4R-eGFP AdGLΔPol (Uil, T. G. etal., E1L-Luciferase-GFP ΔE1 ΔE3 Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011)) CFP.ΔAdPol. ΔE2A1.GFP E1LR-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol ΔE2A1 E4R-eGFP CFP. ΔAdPol.ΔE2A2.GFP E1LR-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol ΔE2A2 E4R-eGFP CFP. ΔAdPol. ΔpVI.GFPE1LR-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol ΔpVI E4R-eGFP CFP. ΔAdPol. ΔFS2.GFP E1LR-CFP ΔE1ΔE3 ΔAdPol ΔFS2 E4R-eGFP CFP. ΔAdPol. ΔAdProt E1LR-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPolΔAdProt E4R-eGFP Note: All viruses used in this work were derived fromAdCFP except for AdGLΔPol, which was previously reported (Uil, T. G. etal., Nucleic Acids Res. 39, e30 (2011)). Ad5.CFP GenBank AccessionNumber: MH325112 (SEQ ID NO: 97).

TABLE 9 Cell lines used in this study. Cell line Polymerase Transgenecassette wt-AdPol wt-AdPol None EP-Pol EP-Pol None E2A wt-AdPol CMV.E2APVI wt-AdPol CMV.pVI 633 none CMV.Fiber Fiber wt-AdPol CMV.Fiber ShortFiber wt-AdPol CMV.Short Fiber AdProt wt-AdPol CMV.AdProt Note: All celllines were derived from HEK293A cells except the 633 cell line, whichwas A549-derived.

With single-colony cell lines expressing wild-type AdPol or EP-Pol inhand, the dependence of ΔAdPol adenovirus replication on cellular AdPolexpression was assessed. HEK293A cells that either did or did notexpress the HA-tagged AdPol variants were infected with GFP-expressingΔAdPol adenoviruses and monitored the infection. These infections wereperformed at a low multiplicity of infection (MOI<<1) to ensure that onecould effectively monitor the infection as it spread. After one day ofinfection, robust GFP expression was observed in the wild-type AdPol andEP-Pol expressing cell lines, but only moderate GFP expression in theHEK293A cell line (FIG. 30B-30D). The difference in GFP expressionbetween AdPol-expressing cell lines and the HEK293A cells is likely aresult of AdPol-mediated replication of the adenoviral genome-expressedeGFP gene. As AdPol replicates the genome, the eGFP gene is replicatedand the gene copy number increases, resulting in increased eGFPtranscription and protein expression. The cells were monitored over timeto assess whether the infection spread. After 5 days, eGFP was expressedthroughout the plate and largescale cytopathic effect (CPE) was observedonly in the AdPol-expressing cell lines. As eGFP is only expressed incells infected by the eGFP.ΔPol.adenovirus, this result indicates thatΔAdPol adenoviruses propagated only on human cells that trans-complementAdPol with wild-type AdPol or EP-Pol. Moreover, EP-Pol and wild-typeAdPol were similarly capable of supporting robust ΔAdPol-adenovirusreplication.

The mutation rate of EP-Pol was next assessed by passagingΔAdPol-adenovirus on EP-Pol trans-complementing human cells for multiplegenerations. Subsequent next-generation sequencing of a 6.5 kb region ofthe adenoviral genome in a small pool of passaged clones revealed amutation rate of approximately 3.7×10⁻⁵ per base per cell infectioncycle, which is >280-fold higher than the estimated spontaneous mutationrate of wild-type AdPol (FIG. 20C, TABLE 4) (Risso-Ballester J. et al.,PLoS Pathogy. 12(11): e1006013 (2016)). This increase in mutation rateendows EP-Pol with a mutagenic capacity similar to highly mutagenic RNAviruses that can readily evolve on lab timescales (Risso-Ballester J. etal., PLoS Pathogy. 12(11): e1006013 (2016); Sanjuin R. et al., J. Virol.84, 9733-9748 (2010); Phillips A. M. et al., eLife 6, e28652 (2017)).Moreover, EP-Pol displays a broad mutational spectrum, including bothtransitions and transversions (FIG. 20D).

Based on these results, the lower limit of the library size wasestimated in a given passage (or ‘round’) of directed evolution usingEP-Pol. A typical round of directed evolution might reasonably involveinfecting 3.0×10⁸ human cells at a low MOI. Each round of directedevolution concludes once ˜75% of cells (˜2.3×10⁸ cells) are infected.Because ˜1.3 mutations are introduced per cell per replication, andbecause there is at least one replication in each round of evolutionsince the infection occurs at low MOI, it was estimated that there are˜3.0×10⁸ adenoviral variants after one passage. Assuming a typical 1 kbgene encoding the BOI comprises ˜ 1/30 of the engineered adenoviralgenome, there would be ˜1×10⁷ variants of the BOI in the populationafter one round of evolution. This calculation is a lower limit becauseit does not account for any genetic diversity at the beginning of eachround. Additionally, there is likely to be more than a singlereplication in each round of evolution, which would further increaselibrary complexity. Regardless, even this conservative estimateindicates that one can generate virtually all single, many double, andsome triple mutants in a typical BOI gene single round of evolution.

This mutagenesis system has a number of advantages over current standarddirected evolution systems. Trans-complemented EP-Pol allows continualintroduction of mutations into the evolving BOI instead of requiring invitro mutagenesis physically separated from selection and propagationsteps. Mutagenesis is accomplished by simply passaging the evolvingadenovirus on cells that express EP-Pol. Furthermore, because EP-Pol isspecific for the adenoviral genome, the possibility of selectionsubversion owing to random mutagenesis of the human genome issignificantly reduced compared to global mutagenesis methods (Badran A.H. and Liu D. R., Nat. Commun., 6, 8425 (2015)). Additionally, the humancell dies as a result of infection and is discarded as part of theserial passaging protocol, further reducing the possibility of selectionsubversion as a result of mutations in the human cell. Overall, thistrans-complementation-based EP-Pol mutagenesis system should provide arobust approach to in vivo library generation, that reliably mutatesBOIs while minimizing researcher intervention.

Example 15. Development of Trans-Complementation Systems for PutativeSelection Schemes

The next objective was to design an appropriate selection circuitcapable of coupling BOI activity to adenoviral propagation. Theselection gene employed to create the circuit requires a number ofcharacteristics: 1) the gene must be essential for viral replication toensure efficient enrichment of positive BOI variants; 2) the gene mustbe amenable to trans-complementation to allow for creation of thegenetic circuit; 3) the gene cannot be susceptible to “cheating” inwhich the BOI finds alternative paths to allow for viral replication; 4)the gene should have a high dynamic range so that greater expression ofthe selection gene results in greater amplification of the evolving BOI;and 5) ideally the gene would function after viral genome replication toallow for mutagenic library generation prior to selection (Flint S. J.,Adenoviruses, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (2001)). With these desiredcharacteristics in mind, the possibility of using four different genesencoding Early gene 2A (E2A), precursor protein VI (pVI), Fiber, andAdProt as selectable markers was explored for adenovirus-mediateddirected evolution.

E2A:

The adenoviral E2A gene encodes for a single-stranded DNA bindingprotein that has distinct functions in both early gene transcription andDNA replication (Stillman B. W., In Genetic Engineering: Principles andMethods (Setlow, J. K., and Hollaender, A., Eds.), pp 1-27, Springer US,Boston, Mass. (1985)). E2A functions as a vital processivity factor foradenoviral DNA replication: both unwinding the double-stranded genome,and stabilizing the resulting single-stranded DNA (Flint S. J.,Adenoviruses, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (2001)). The vital functionsof E2A in both transcription and DNA replication suggest that it wouldallow for sufficient selection pressure and potentially have a highdynamic range. On the other hand, E2A is expressed early in adenoviralinfection, prior to DNA replication, which could hamper the generationof a mutagenic library prior to selection.

Importantly, E2A has been previously trans-complemented, indicating thatone should be able to engineer a genetic circuit to allow for geneticselection. Two different deletion constructs were pursued to testtrans-complementation of E2A (TABLE 8). The first construct, results indeletion of a 242 bp segment of E2A spanning from nt 67-nt 308. Thisdeletion results in a frameshift mutation that prematurely terminatestranslation (Rice S. A. and Klessig D. F., J. Virol., 56, 767-778(1985)). The second construct was created by deletion of 1176 bp from nt119-nt 1294 in the E2A gene (Zhou H. et al., J. Virol., 70, 7030-7038(1996)). This deletion also results in a frameshift, but also removesmost of the coding sequence of E2A. Both deletions were made byrecombineering in the previously developed ΔAdPol adenoviral constructsdescribed above.

To generate cell lines capable of trans-complementing the E2A deletion,the E2A gene was cloned into a lentiviral vector and used this constructto stably transduce the wild-type AdPol-expressing cell line (TABLE 9).Since there are no antibodies available against E2A, the resultingexpression was analyzed at the transcript level by qPCR (FIG. 31). Basedon the qPCR data, the E2A transcript was only detectable in theE2A-expressing cell lines.

Simultaneous trans-complementation was next tested ofΔAdPolΔE2A-adenoviruses by transfecting linearized genomes into thePol/E2A expressing cell line. Unfortunately, despite extensiveoptimization and efforts we were unable to generateΔAdPolΔE2A-adenoviruses by transfection. Successfullytrans-complementation of E2A may require better analysis of proteinexpression. Since there are no currently available commercial antibodiesagainst E2A, this may require either epitope tagging of the E2A protein,or generation of specific antibodies.

pVI:

pVI is a late adenoviral gene that plays many diverse roles in theadenovirus life cycle. Following viral endocytosis, the N-terminalamphipathic helix of pVI mediates endosomal escape by inducing positivemembrane curvature in a pH-dependent process (Maier O. et al., Virology,402, 11-19 (2010)). During viral capsid maturation, a C-terminalcleavage peptide of pVI interacts with the viral endoprotease (AdProt)to facilitate cleavage of viral precursor proteins from the interior ofthe capsid (Blainey P. C. et al., J. Biol. Chem., 288, 2092-2102(2013)). Finally, the mature protein VI is a minor cement protein in theinterior of the capsid, and binds the exterior of the capsid to interiorproteins (Dai X. et al., J. Virol., 91 (2017)).

Consistent with the important and diverse roles of pVI during many viralprocesses, pVI is required for adenoviral infection. The structural roleof pVI indicates that pVI may have a high dynamic range as a selectionmarker. In contrast to enzymes, structural proteins generally exhibitgreater dynamic range of selection since the number of resultingstructures (in the case of pVI, the number of mature virions) aredirectly proportional to the amount of the structural protein present(Esvelt K. M. et al., Nature. 472(7344): p. 499-503 (2011)). Therefore,lower pVI expression should result in fewer mature viral capsids, andgreater pVI expression should support greater production of matureadenoviral capsids. pVI is also expressed after viral DNA replication,allowing generation of a mutagenic library prior to selection. However,to our knowledge, pVI has not been previously trans-complemented, and ithas been suggested that in vitro expression of pVI is toxic to cells(private correspondence with Dr. Jason Smith, University of Washington).Nevertheless, a pVI trans-complementation strategy was pursued similarto those we pursued for AdPol and E2A.

The entire pVI coding sequence was first deleted from aΔAdPol-adenovirus by recombineering (TABLE 8). A stable cell line wasgenerated next that expressed pVI (TABLE 9). Ectopic expression of pVIrequired additional engineering to incorporate a necessary leadersequence termed the tripartite leader, or TPL. Late adenoviral genessuch as pVI require the TPL to allow for high expression throughout theadenoviral infection (Logan J. and Shenk T., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 81,3655-3659 (1984)). During late adenoviral infection, adenovirus inhibitscap-dependent translation by inhibiting formation of the propertranslation initiation complex, eIF4F (Cuesta R. et al., Embo J., 19,3465-3474 (2000)). The TPL allows late adenoviral genes to subvertcap-dependent translation by interacting directly with ribosomal RNAthrough a process termed ribosomal shunting (Yueh A. and Schneider R.J., Genes Dev. 14(4): p. 414-21 (2000)).

Wild-type AdPol expressing cells were stably transduced with lentiviruscontaining TPL-fused pVI and isolated single colonies. Both AdPol andpVI expression were analyzed by Western blot (FIG. 32). It was foundthat the pVI heterostable cell lines (pVI Het) expressed pVI at levelstoo low to detect by Western blot. However, some single coloniesexpressed pVI to a much greater degree, although expression level variedfrom clone to clone. Most single colonies also expressed two separateprotein bands. The biological significance of this banding pattern isunclear, but it could be a result of either proteolytic digestion oralternative splicing.

Two separate single colonies were tested for their ability totrans-complement ΔpVIΔAdPol-adenovirus: colony number two owing to highpVI expression, and colony number six owing to the single pVI bandobserved. Colonies number two and six were transfected with linearizedΔpVIΔAdPol-adenovirus to generate ΔpVIΔAdPol virions. However, like E2A,we were unable to generate any adenovirus from either transfection. Itis likely that there are other regulatory factors such as vitalalternative splice sites that may contribute to pVI activity (Zhao H. etal., Virology, 456-457, 329-341 (2014)).

Fiber:

The adenovirus fiber protein is a 62 kDa trimeric protein located ateach of the twelve vertices on the icosahedral adenoviral capsid (FlintS. J., Adenoviruses, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (2001)). Fibermediates host cell recognition through its interaction with thecoxsackie virus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) on the surface of targetcells (Lonberg-Holm K. et al., Nature, 259, 679-681 (1976)). Fiberconsists of three primary domains: a tail that associates otherstructural proteins within the adenoviral capsid, a series of twenty-twoshaft repeats, and a knob domain that interacts with cell receptors(FIG. 33A). The replication of adenoviruses deleted and thentrans-complemented for fiber has been extensively studied (Von SeggernD. J. et al., J. Virol., 73, 1601-1608 (1999); Uil T. G. et al., J.Gene. Med., 11, 990-1004 (2009)). Adenoviruses deleted for fiber are10,000-fold less infectious than fiber-containing adenoviruses,indicating a potentially high dynamic range for selection (Legrand V. etal., J. Virol., 73, 907-919 (1999)). Furthermore, fiber bindscooperatively to multivalent receptors, indicating that fiber mayexhibit a high dynamic range as a selection marker (Persson R. et al.,J. Virol., 54, 92-97 (1985)). Finally, like pVI, fiber is expressed latein adenoviral infection allowing for mutagenic replication prior toselection.

Trans-complementation of fiber in the system required extensiveengineering of both the adenoviral genome and cell line. Followingprevious studies involving fiber deletion, all but the last 85nucleotides were deleted of the fiber coding sequence by recombineeringto make a ΔAdPolΔfiber-adenoviral genome (TABLE 8) (Uil T. G. et al., J.Gene. Med., 11, 990-1004 (2009)). To generate an AdPol/fiber expressingcell line, an A549-derived cell line was obtained that highly expressesfiber, termed ‘633’ (TABLE 9). The 633 cell line was transduced withlentiviral vectors containing AdPol, however, a high-expressing clonalcell line was not obtained (Von Seggern D. J. et al., J. Virol., 74,354-362 (2000)).

We next attempted to generate high-expressing fiber cell lines from thepreviously established AdPol expressing cell lines. The wild-type AdPolexpressing cells were stably transduced with TPL-fused fiber lentivirusand analyzed expression by Western blot (TABLE 9). However, it was foundthat fiber expression in a 293A-derived cell line was significantlylower than fiber expression in either an adenoviral infection, or in the633 cell line (FIG. 33A, lane 2, lane 4).

Previous studies report that shortening fiber by reducing the number ofshaft repeats from 22 to 7 significantly increases ectopic expression ofthe protein (Uil T. G. et al., J. Gene. Med., 11, 990-1004 (2009)). Acell line expressing the shortened fiber construct was generated and itwas found that fiber expression was significantly increased (FIG. 33B,lane 3 R7Knob) (TABLE 9).

We therefore attempted simultaneous trans-complementation of both fiberand AdPol by transfecting ΔAdPolΔfiber-adenovirus into the AdPol/shortfiber-expressing cell line. After about 2 weeks, the formation of‘comets’ of fluorescent cells was seen, indicating that the virus hadbeen successfully produced from a progenitor cell, and reabsorbed intoneighboring cells (data not shown). Unfortunately, these comets failedto increase in size, and uninfected cells grew back around the comets,indicating that the infection failed to effectively spread. Consideringwe observed initial formation of comets that failed to spread further,it is possible that the isolated cell line has developed heterogeneityin fiber expression, so that most of the cells in the culture cannotsupport propagation ΔAdPolΔfiber-adenovirus. Extensive testing andrescreening of fiber-expressing single colony cell lines may result in ahomogenous cell line that is capable of supporting infection ofΔAdPolΔfiber-adenovirus.

Adenoviral Protease:

The final adenoviral gene examined for its utility as a selectablemarker was the adenoviral protease (AdProt). AdProt is a 23 kDa cysteineprotease that plays an important role in both viral entry, and viralmaturation (Mangel W. F. et al., J. Biol. Chem., 271, 536-543 (1996);Cotten M. and Weber J. M., Virology, 213, 494-502 (1995)). Upon initialassembly of the adenoviral pro-capsid, AdProt cleaves viral precursorproteins in order to generate the mature, stable capsid (Blainey P. C.et al., J. Biol. Chem., 288, 2092-2102 (2013)). Like fiber and pVI,AdProt is produced late in adenoviral infection, after DNA replication.The vital functions of AdProt also suggest that it is completelynecessary for viral growth. Furthermore, despite concerns regardingAdProt toxicity, AdProt had been previously trans-complemented by onegroup, suggesting that one could likely engineer it to serve as aselectable marker (Oualikene W. et al., Hum. Gene Ther., 11, 1341-1353(2000)). We were concerned that as an enzyme, AdProt may not afford alarge dynamic range of selection, as enzyme turnover may allow enoughactivity to generate mature virions. However, we were encouraged by thefact that AdProt is highly constrained in the interior of the viralcapsid, indicating that adenovirus may require multiple molecules ofAdProt per capsid to effectively cleave all of its substrates (GrazianoV., J. Biol. Chem., 288, 2068-2080 (2013)).

The AdProt gene was first deleted from a ΔAdPol-adenovirus byrecombineering (TABLE 8). We next generated aTPL-AdProt/AdPol-expressing clonal cell line by lentiviral transductionof the AdPol-expressing cell line (TABLE 9). Since there is no antibodyavailable against AdProt, we analyzed expression by qPCR (FIG. 34). Wefound that we were only able to detect AdProt mRNA expression in theAdProt-expressing cell line. To test double-trans-complementation ofAdPol and AdProt, we transfected linearizedCFP-ΔAdProt-ΔAdPol-adenoviral genomes into the AdProt/AdPol expressingcell line. After two weeks, we began to see fluorescent comets formindicating a successful initial viral production. After three weeks,most of the cells exhibited CPE, and all were fluorescing blue,suggesting that the infection had progressed effectively throughout theentire plate.

For AdProt to act as a selectable marker in adenovirus-mediated directedevolution, ΔAdProt-ΔAdPol adenovirus would need to be dependent onAdProt expression and function to propagate. To test the necessity ofAdProt for adenoviral production, AdProt/AdPol cells, AdPol cells, andnormal HEK-293A cells were infected with the newly generatedCFPΔAdProtΔAdPol adenovirus at a low MOI (<<1) and monitored theinfection (FIG. 25). The HEK-293A cells exhibited only modest CFPfluorescence, possibly due to a low adenoviral genome copy number. TheAdPol cells exhibited robust CFP fluorescence, likely because AdPol waspresent to increase the copy number of the adenoviral genome, and thusthe CFP gene. While the CFPΔAdProtΔAdPol adenovirus was able to infectthe AdPol cells, the virus failed to propagate. Only the AdProt/AdPolcells were able to support a spreading infection of ΔAdProtΔAdPoladenovirus, demonstrating the absolute necessity of AdProt expression toadenoviral replication.

Example 16. Discussion

Here, efforts to generate the necessary components of anadenovirus-mediated, human cell-based directed evolution platform havebeen described. A mutagenesis system was created based on a designederror-prone adenoviral polymerase capable of generating geneticlibraries on the scale necessary for robust directed evolution. Aselection system was derived based on the adenoviral protease gene thatenables continuous selection by simply passaging the adenovirus from oneplate to the next. Together, the mutagenesis and selection systemscomprise the basic components necessary to do adenovirus-mediateddirected evolution in human cells.

In developing this platform, adenovirus was chosen rather than anatively mutagenic RNA virus owing to adenovirus' relative safety, broadtropism, ease of manipulation, and capacity to propagate even understrong selection pressure. The adenoviruses used for directed evolutionexperiments were E1-, E3-, AdPol- and AdProt-deleted. All of these genesare required for adenoviral replication in the wild. Thus, the safety ofworking with these partially gutted adenoviruses is maximized as theycan only replicate in human cells that provide these essential genes intrans, and cannot replicate in unmodified human cells (Uil T. G. et al.,Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011); Russell W. C. J. Gen. Virol. 81,2573-2604 (2000); Elahi S. M. et al., Gene Ther. 9, 1238-1246 (2002)).Moreover, the removal of this large portion of the adenoviral genomemeans that genes as large as ˜7 kb can potentially be introduced andevolved in the platform. The broad tropism of adenovirus is beneficialbecause it means that directed evolution experiments can, in principle,be performed in many different human cell types depending on theobjective of a particular experiment (Lucher L. A. Curr. Top. Microbiol.Immunol. 199 (Pt 1), 119-152 (1995)). Finally, from a genome engineeringperspective, the optimized recombineering protocols allow the necessaryfacile manipulation of the adenoviral genome (Wang H. et al., NucleicAcids Res. 42, e37 (2014)).

Despite the manifold benefits of the choice to use adenovirus, thisstudy faced a significant challenge because both wild-type and even thepreviously reported error-prone AdPol variants have relatively highfidelity, and were therefore unlikely to enable the creation ofmutational libraries at a sufficiently high rate to support continuousdirected evolution of novel BOIs (Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res.,39(5): e30 (2011)). To address this issue, EP-Pol was engineered, ahighly mutagenic AdPol variant that pushes the adenoviral mutation rateinto the regime of RNA viruses such as HIV and influenza that arewell-known to rapidly evolve on laboratory timescales (Phillips A. M. etal., eLife 6, e28652 (2017); Meyerhans A. et al., Cell 58, 901-910(1989); O'Loughlin T. L. et al., Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 764-772 (2006)).Trans-complementation of EP-Pol was used via constitutive expression inthe host cell to prevent reversion to wild-type AdPol that could occurif we modified an adenovirally encoded AdPol gene, thereby ensuring thatmutagenic activity remains at a constant, high level throughout directedevolution experiments.

The mutagenesis system combines the effect of two distinct mutations inthe adenoviral polymerase to cooperatively increase the mutation rate byover 280-fold. This system should allow the generation of a new mutationduring each viral replication cycle, and conservatively support librarysizes of 10⁷-10⁹ members. As expected, EP-Pol causes far moretransitions than transversions. Interestingly, no A→C transversions wereobserved, despite the fact that a minor population of A→C transversionswere observed in the F421Y single mutant (Uil T. G. et al., NucleicAcids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011)). It is possible that the sample size wastoo small to detect if A→C transversions occur at a low level withEP-Pol. Alternatively, the cooperative effects of the F421Y/D827A doublemutant could have shifted the mutational biases so that the A→Ctransversion is no longer possible.

This mutagenesis approach does introduce mutations into the adenoviralgenome outside the gene for the BOI. Such mutations can potentially benegatively selected and consequently reduce library size. The 6.5 kbgenomic region we sequenced (FIGS. 20C-20D) was chosen because itcontained both protein coding regions necessary for adenoviralreplication and non-coding regions that should not face significantselection pressure. Comparing these domains across the sequenced region,only a two-fold difference between the mutation rate in the inactivatedAdPol gene was observed, which should not be under any selectionpressure in the trans-complementing system, and the neighboring pIX,IVa2, and pTP genes, suggesting that such negative selection onlyimpacts the mutation rate at most two-fold.

Because AdPol selectively replicates only adenoviral DNA, EP-Pol canonly introduce mutations into the adenoviral genome. This mutagenesistechnique thus represents an improvement over other strategies thatevolve genes directly in the human genome. In such strategies,off-target mutations can arise through basal or through the enhancedmutagenesis rates, which can subvert selection pressure and generatefalse positives. Furthermore, even recent mutagenesis methods thattarget specific genes within the human genome, by using somatichypermutation (Wang C. L. et al., Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 17, 659-664(2004)) or Cas9-fusion proteins (Wang L. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA. 101(48): p. 16745-49 (2004); Ma Y. et al., Nat. Methods 13,1029-1035, doi:10.1038/nmeth.4027 (2016); Hess G. T. et al., Nat.Methods 13, 1036-1042, doi:10.1038/nmeth.4038 (2016); Komor A. C. etal., Nature 533, 420-424 (2016)), still display significant off-targetgenetic modification (Meng F. L. et al., Cell 159, 1538-1548 (2014); KimD. et al., Nat. Biotechnol. 35, 475-480 (2017); Wang C. L. et al., PNAS101, 7352-7356 (2004)). Especially given the large size of the humangenome, many pathways to cheating selection may be available. The use ofan orthogonal replication system means that the human host cells arediscarded and replaced with each passage, preventing mutationaccumulation in the human cell that could potentially cheat selectionpressure. This advantage, combined with the much more rapid growth ofadenovirus relative to human cells allowing a larger number of directedevolution rounds in a given time period, highlights the ability of theplatform to quickly scan mutational space with minimal risk of selectionsubversion.

While the mutagenesis system is capable of supporting laboratory-baseddirected evolution, some improvements can be made to bothcharacterization of the mutation rate and the mutagenesis approachoverall. Because the deep sequencing approach only sequences a verysmall subset of the viral population (a few dozen clones), the reportedmutation rate only follows a specific viral lineage, and fails toelucidate the diversity of mutations generated in the whole viralpopulation. We were only able to sample a few clones because it wasnecessary to obtain mutational signals above the ˜1% error threshold ofdeep sequencing approaches (Howison M. et al., bioRxiv (2018)). Newstrategies to sample preparation and data analysis introduce redundancyinto the deep sequencing pipeline to make more accurate base calls(Schmitt M. W. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109, 14508-14513 (2012)).This so-called “duplex sequencing” approach has been used to moreaccurately assess the mutation rate of wild-type AdPol, and could beused for the same purposes on EP-Pol to better characterize themutational diversity (Risso-Ballester J. et al., PLoS Pathogy. 12(11):e1006013 (2016)).

Alternatively, experimental approaches that assess the rate of reversionof non-permissive mutations have been employed to assess the mutationrate of higher organisms and pathogens alike (Sanjuin R. et al., J.Virol. 84, 9733-9748 (2010); Luria S. E. and DelbrUck M., Genetics, 28,491-511 (1943)). In fluctuation analysis, a selection for a knownmutation is used as a proxy to assess the mutation rate. Because themethod is based on the number of specific mutants relative to the numberof non-mutants, one can reasonably assess the population diversity basedoff the likelihood of the single permissive mutation arising. Thisexperiment is repeated several times to assess the distribution ofpermissive mutations and more accurately determine the overall mutationrate over multiple viral generations. One drawback of this approach inanalyzing a mutagenic polymerase is that it fails to account fornucleotide biases that may favor certain mutations over others. Toperform fluctuation analysis on EP-Pol, we could take advantage of knowntemperature sensitive viral mutants to assess the titer in both theabsence and presence of temperature-dependent selection (Kaplan L. M. etal., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 76, 5534-5538 (1979); Day R. S. andZiolowski C. H. J., Photochem. Photobiol., 34(3): p. 403-06 (1981)).

The ability of four different adenoviral genes were also assessed toserve as selectable markers in a directed evolution system. Of the fourgenes tested, only AdProt was successful in adouble-trans-complementation scheme with AdPol. Fortunately, AdProt wasalso completely selectable: ΔAdProt-ΔAdPol adenoviruses failed to growon cells that did not express AdProt.

We encountered significant difficulties in trans-complementing variousother adenoviral genes for genetic selection. Two of the genes we failedto trans-complement, E2A and fiber, have been previouslytrans-complemented by others (Zhou H. et al., J. Virol., 70, 7030-7038(1996); Uil T. G. et al., J. Gene. Med., 11, 990-1004 (2009)).Trans-complementation of adenoviral genes is inherently disruptive tothe adenoviral replication cycle, which is tightly regulated duringnormal infection (Flint S. J., Adenoviruses, Encyclopedia of LifeSciences (2001)). It was found that expressing the adenoviral polymerasein trans already reduces the infectious titer ˜10-fold (data not shown)likely due to dysregulation of expression. Simultaneously expressingE2A, which is also involved in DNA replication, in trans may be too muchfor the virus to overcome.

For fiber, previous labs have found that strong in trans expression isnecessary for robust adenoviral infection (Von Seggern D. J. et al., J.Virol., 73, 1601-1608 (1999); Uil T. G. et al., J. Gene. Med., 11,990-1004 (2009)). While we were able to achieve higher fiber expressionusing a short fiber construct, we were still unable to support a strongadenoviral infection. We did observe an initial infection event,indicated by the appearance of a “comet” of highly fluorescent cells inclose proximity. These comets are indicative of successful viralproduction and subsequent reabsorption in neighboring cells. However,the virus failed to spread beyond this initial infection event. Givenhow close this fiber cell line was to successful trans-complementationof fiber, it is possible that one could screen for higher-expressingfiber clones and achieve the expression necessary to support infection.Alternatively, designing closer mimetics of the canonical adenoviralexpression, such as driving transcript expression via the adenovirusmajor late promoter, could create a more viable trans-complementationsystem for late genes such as fiber and/or pVI (Song B. and Young C. S.H., Virology, 235, 109-117 (1997)).

While AdProt is able to act as a selectable marker for adenoviralreplication, it is possible that there are better selection genesavailable. HAd5 encodes at least 36 individual proteins (GenBank:AC_000008.1), of which only a fraction have been trans-complemented.Based on the desired characteristics of a selectable marker, otheradenoviral structural proteins such as hexon, penton, IIIA, VII, andVIII, may be useful (Russell W. C., J. Gen. Virol. 81, 2573-2604(2000)).

Example 17. Materials and Methods for Examples 18-24

Vectors and Cloning:

Materials:

All enzymes were obtained from New England BioLabs unless statedotherwise. All primers were obtained from either ThermoFisher or SigmaAldrich. Gene blocks were obtained from Integrated DNA Technologies. Allprimers are listed in TABLE 14. LV-Cre pLKO. 1 was a gift from ElaineFuchs (Addgene plasmid #25997) (Beronja S. et al., Nat. Med., 16,821-827 (2010)) and was used as a template to recombineer Crerecombinase into the adenoviral genome, and pANAP was a gift from PeterSchultz (Addgene plasmid #48696) (Chatterjee A. et al., J. Am. Chem.Soc., 135, 12540-12543 (2013)).

Adenoviral Cloning:

All adenoviruses were generated from a parent Ad5.CFP vector derivedfrom pAd/CMV/V5-DEST (ThermoFisher). Adenoviral constructs wereengineered using ccdB recombineering, as previously described (Wang H.et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)), in DH10B Escherichia colicarrying the Adenovirus type 5 genome in a chloramphenicol-resistantbacterial artificial chromosome (AdBAC). Cells carrying an AdBAC weretransformed with the temperature-sensitive psc101-gbaA recombineeringplasmid (Wang H. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)), plated onLB (Difco) agar (Alfa Aesar) with 10 μg/mL tetracycline (CalBioChem) and10 μg/mL chloramphenicol (Alfa Aesar), and incubated for 24 h at 30° C.Colonies were selected and grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracyclineand 10 μg/mL chloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnightcultures were diluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10μg/mL chloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining anOD₆₀₀ of 0.3-0.4. The ccdA antitoxin and recombineering machinery werethen induced by adding L-arabinose (Chem-Impex) and L-rhamnose (SigmaAldrich) to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH2O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the appropriate kan-ccdB targeting cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8ms, 0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recoveredin super optimal broth with catabolite repression (SOC; Teknova) with 2mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, then plated on LB agar plates with50 μg/mL kanamycin (Alfa Aesar) and 2 mg/mL L-arabinose and incubatedfor 24 h at 30° C. Colonies that grew under these conditions hadincorporated the kan-ccdB targeting cassette and were picked intriplicate and grown in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycin and 2 mg/mLL-arabinose at 30° C. for 18-21 h. (Note: The colonies were picked intriplicate because multimers of the AdBAC formed at a high rate (˜30-50%of colonies) during the first recombineering step. These multimers areunable to be successfully recombineered in the next step. Picking threecolonies and recombineering them separately in parallel increases thechances of picking a monomer that can be successfully recombineered.)The cultures were then diluted 25-fold in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycin and2 mg/mL L-arabinose and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until they reached anOD₆₀₀ of 0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced byadding L-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL and then growingthe cultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the final targeting cassette intended to replace thekan-ccdB cassette currently integrated in the genome (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms,0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recovered inSOC with 2 mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, and then were washedonce with LB to remove the L-arabinose and prevent continued productionof the ccdA antitoxin. The cultures were then plated on LB agar platesat various dilutions with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and incubated for 24 h at 37° C. Without the ccdAantitoxin, the ccdB toxin will kill cells that have not replaced theintegrated kan-ccdB cassette with the final targeting cassette. Thecolonies that grow should have the final targeting cassette integrated,but were screened by PCR or sequencing to confirm cassette integrationas some colonies may simply inactivate the ccdB toxin.

Once a clone with all of the desired genetic changes was found andconfirmed by Sanger sequencing, the AdBAC single-copy replication originwas replaced with the high copy pUC origin. The cells with the correctclone were grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnight cultures werediluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining an OD₆₀₀ of0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced by addingL-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH2O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH2O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the pUC origin cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms, 0.1 cm cuvette,BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recovered in SOC at 30° C. for2 h, then plated on LB agar plates with 100 μg/mL ampicillin andincubated for 24 h at 37° C. The resulting ampicillin-resistant coloniesshould have the pUC origin inserted and were checked by verifyingexpected restriction digestion patterns. The colonies were grown in 25mL LB containing 100 μg/mL ampicillin and the DNA was purified using theZymoPURE II plasmid midiprep kit (Zymo Research) according to themanufacturer's instructions. The DNA was digested with PacI overnight at37° C. in order to liberate and linearize the adenoviral genome. Thelinearized DNA was purified using the E.Z.N.A. cycle pure kit (OmegaBio-tek) according to the manufacturer's instructions.

The following modifications in TABLE 15 were made using primers in TABLE14 to obtain the adenoviruses used in this work (TABLE 12).

TRE3G.AdProt Expression Vector:

A 641 bp fragment containing adenoviral protease (AdProt) was amplifiedfrom the Ad5 genome using the primers BamHI.AdProt F and SalI.AdProt R(TABLE 14) and ligated into pTRE-Tight (Clontech) using BamHI and SalIto make the pTRE-Tight.AdProt vector. The Ad5 Tripartite leader sequence(TPL) was amplified from the TPL gene block (TABLE 14) using the primersTPL.GA F and TPL.AdProt GA R (TABLE 14) and the pTRE-Tight.AdProt vectorwas amplified using the primers TRE.AdProt GA F and TRE.AdProt GA R(TABLE 14). The TPL and pTRE-Tight.AdProt amplicons were assembled usingthe HiFi DNA assembly kit (New England Biolabs) to create thepTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProt vector. TPL-prot was amplified frompTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProt using the primers TPL.AdProt GA F and TPL.AdProtGA R (TABLE 14) and assembled with NotI-digested pLVX.Tight.Puro (TakaraBiosciences) using the HiFi DNA assembly kit to formpLVX.Tight.TPL.AdProt.Puro. A fragment containing TPL.AdProt wasobtained from pLVX.Tight.TPL.AdProt.Puro by digestion with EcoRI andBamHI and ligated into the pLVX.TRE3G vector (Takara Bio) to create thepLVX.TRE3G.AdProt vector.

Tre3G.Egfp Vector:

A 762 bp fragment containing eGFP was amplified from the eGFP-N3 vector(Takara Bio) using the primers NotI.eGFP F and EcoRI.eGFP R (TABLE 14)and ligated into the pLVX-TRE3G vector (Takara Bio) using NotI and EcoRIto create the pLVX-TRE3G.eGFP vector.

tTA variant vectors:

A 743 bp fragment containing mCherry was amplified from apcDNA3.1-mCherry template plasmid using the primers NotI.mCherry F andXhoI.mCherry R (TABLE 14) and inserted into the pBudCE4.1 vector (ThermoFisher) using NotI and XhoI to create the pBud.mCherry vector. A 771 bpfragment containing tTA was amplified from a tTA.mCherry adenoviralvector using the primers SalI.TTA F and BamHI.TTA R (TABLE 14) andinserted into the pBud.mCherry vector using BamHI and SalI to create thepBud.tTA.mCherry vector. Site-directed mutagenesis was then performed onpBud.tTA.mCherry using a QuickChange II XL Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit(Agilent) to generate the indicated point mutations in tTA, and CMV(FIGS. 39A-39B).

AdProt.Flag Vector:

From the pTRE-Tight.TPL.AdProt vector, an 852 bp fragment containingTPL.AdProt was amplified using primers NotI.TPL F and XbaI.AdProt.R(TABLE 14) and inserted into the pENTR1A vector using NotI and XbaI toform pENTR1A.TPL.AdProt. A FLAG epitope tag was inserted intopENTR1A.TPL.AdProt using primers pENTR1A.AdProt.FLAG F andpENTR1A.AdProt.FLAG R (TABLE 14) and using the QuickChange II XLSite-Directed Mutagenesis Kit to form pENTR1A.TPL.AdProt.FLAG.

This vector was then recombined with pcDNA-DEST40 using LR Clonase IIEnzyme Master Mix to form pcDNA.TPL.AdProt.FLAG.

(LoxP)₂Term.AProt Vector:

A vector containing an SV40-polyA terminator flanked by two loxP siteswas purchased from GeneArt (ThermoFisher). From this vector, a 370 bpfragment containing the floxed SV40-terminator signal was amplifiedusing primers LoxP2Term GA F and LoxP2Term GA R (TABLE 14). ThepENTR1A.TPL.AdProt.FLAG vector was linearized using pENT.AdProt GA F andpENT.AdProt GA R (TABLE 14). The two amplicons were assembled to formpENTR1A.(LoxP)₂Term.TPL.AdProt.FLAG using the NEB HiFi DNA assembly kit.This vector was then recombined with pcDNA-DEST40 using LR Clonase IIEnzyme Master Mix to form pcDNA.(LoxP)2Term.TPL.AdProt.FLAG.

AdProt(STOP) Vector:

pENTR1A.TPL.AdProt.FLAG was mutagenized using primers L8.STOP F andL8.Stop R (TABLE 14) to form pENTR1A.TPL.AdProt(STOP).FLAG using theQuickChange II XL Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit. This vector was thenrecombined with pcDNA-DEST40 using LR Clonase II Enzyme Master Mix toform pcDNA. TPL.AdProt(STOP). FLAG.

pLeu-tRNA.LeuRS Vector: A 2607 bp Fragment Containing LeuRS, the E. coliLeucyl-tRNA synthetase, was amplified from DH10B E. coli genomic DNAusing the primers HindIII.LeuRS.F and XhoI.LeuRS.R (TABLE 14) andinserted into pANAP (Chatterjee A. et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135,12540-12543 (2013)) using HindIII and XhoI to create the pLeu-tRNA.LeuRSvector.

pLeu-tRNA.GFP(STOP) Vector:

Site-directed mutagenesis was performed on the pcDNA3.1-CMV.GFP plasmidusing a QuickChange II XL Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Agilent) andthe primers Tyr40TAG.Forward and Tyr40TAG.Reverse (TABLE 14) tointroduce a premature stop codon at position 40 in eGFP. Then a 750 bpfragment containing eGFP(STOP) was amplified from the site-directedmutagenesis product using the primers HindIII.eGFP.Forward andXhoI.eGFP.Reverse (TABLE 14) and inserted into pANAP (Chatterjee A. etal., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 12540-12543 (2013)) using HindIII and XhoIto create the pLeu-tRNA.GFP(STOP) vector.

Cell Culture and Lentivirus Transduction:

Cell Culture:

All cells were cultured at 37° C. and 5% CO₂. All cell lines werederived from a parent HEK293A cell line (ATCC) and cultured inDulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM; Cellgro) supplemented with 10%fetal bovine serum (FBS; Cellgro), 1% penicillin-streptomycin (Cellgro),and 1% L-glutamine (Cellgro). Cell lines that constitutively expressAdProt were cultured in 50 μg/mL Hygromycin B (Thermo Fisher), and celllines that inducibly express AdProt or GFP were cultured in 1 μg/mLpuromycin (Corning) to stably maintain transgenes. The producer cellline that expressed AdProt from both constitutive and induciblepromoters was cultured in both hygromycin and puromycin.

Generation of Cell Lines by Lentiviral Transduction:

In a typical protocol, ˜9×10⁶ 293FT cells were plated on apoly-D-lysine-coated 10 cm dish. The next day, the cells wereco-transfected with plasmids from the previously describedthird-generation packaging system (Wang H. et al., Nucleic Acids Res.42, e37 (2014)): 15 μg RRE, 6 μg REV, 3 μg VSVG, and 15 μg transfervector using 60 μL Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher). Cultures weremaintained in 5 mL total volume of OPTI-MEM (Gibco) throughout thetransfection. After 8 h, the media was exchanged for fresh DMEM. After48 h, media was harvested and centrifuged for 5 min at 162×g to clearthe cell debris. The supernatant was used to transduce HEK293A cellssupplemented with 4 μg/mL polybrene (Sigma). After 24 h, the media wasexchanged for fresh DMEM. After 48 h, media was exchanged again for DMEMcontaining 50 μg/mL hygromycin to select stable cell lines (as indicatedabove).

RT-qPCR:

cDNA was made from 1 μg of purified RNA using the High Capacity cDNAReverse Transcription Kit (Applied Biosystems). qPCR was run for AdProt(primers: AdProt L and AdProt R) and housekeeping gene RPLP2 (primers:RPLP2 F and RPLP2 R) (TABLE 14) on a LightCycler 480 II (Roche) toconfirm expression.

Generating Adenovirus from Transfection:

All adenoviruses were produced by transfecting a PacI-linearized vectorinto appropriate trans-complementing HEK293A cells. Briefly, 24 μg ofPacI-digested adenovirus vectors transfected with 144 μL PEI, 1 mLOptiMEM (Gibco) into a 15 cm plate of the corresponding cell line (10million cells). Media was replaced 8 h after transfection. Media wasthen intermittently replaced every 2-3 days until plaques were observed(typically ˜3 weeks). Once plaques were observed, cytopathic effect(CPE) was observed in all cells within 5 d. Upon complete CPE, the cellsand media were harvested, and then frozen at −80° C. for at least 30 minand then thawed at 37° C. for 15 min for three total freeze/thaw cycles.The cell debris was removed by centrifugation at >1,462×g for 15 min andthe supernatant was moved to a new Eppendorf tube and stored at −80° C.until use.

Determining Adenoviral Titer by Flow Cytometry:

Adenoviral titers were determined through flow cytometry. Known volumesof AdPol- and AdProt-deleted viral supernatants were added toAdPol-expressing HEK293A cells. 2-3 days post-infection, cells werewashed once with media, stained with 0.2 μg/mL DAPI, and then analyzedon a BD LSR II Analyzer for fluorescent protein expression. Infectioustiters were determined by measuring the percentage of cells infected bya known volume of virus. To minimize counting cells that were infectedby more than one virus and to minimize any background fluorescence, datawere only considered if they fell within the linear range, whichtypically encompassed samples where 1-10% of cells were infected.

Competition Experiments:

A confluent dish of TRE3G.AdProt cells (˜15 million cells) (TABLE 13)was infected with either a 1:100 or 1:1000 mixture of tTA_(wt):tTA_(mut)adenovirus (multiplicity of infection˜0.25) (TABLE 12). Plates weremonitored for the appearance of spreading infection (defined byfluorescent “comets” or plaques) every 24 h. One day after theobservation of spreading infection, 1 mL of media was immediatelytransferred to a fresh, semiconfluent dish (˜5 million cells) ofselector cells, and 2 mL of media was stored at −80° C. for lateranalysis. After three passages, viral populations from each passage wereanalyzed by flow cytometry.

Doxycycline Dose Response:

A semi-confluent dish of TRE3G.AdProt cells (˜160,000 cells) (TABLE 13)was infected with tTA_(wt). mCherry adenovirus (multiplicity ofinfection ˜2.5) (TABLE 12). After 3 h, the cells were washed twice, andfresh tet-approved media (Takara Bio) supplemented with variousconcentrations of dox was added. 5 days later, the virus lysates wereharvested and viral titers were analyzed by flow cytometry.

AdProt Inhibitor Experiments:

The AdProt inhibitor was synthesized as described (Grosche P. et al.,Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 25(3):p. 438-43 (2015)).

To test the ability of the AdProt inhibitor to inhibit adenoviralreplication, a confluent 6-well plate of HEK293A cells (˜10⁶ cells) wasinfected with Ad5.GFP (MOI˜1) (TABLE 12), and various concentrations ofthe AdProt inhibitor were added. After 48 h, viral supernatants wereharvested and titered by flow cytometry, as described above.

To test the combined effects of the AdProt inhibitor in the context ofthe tTA genetic circuit, a confluent 12-well plate of TRE3G.AdProt cells(˜400,00 cells) (TABLE 13) was infected with tTA_(wt).mCherry adenovirus(multiplicity of infection˜5) (TABLE 12). After 4 h, the cells werewashed, and the adenoviral protease inhibitor was added at the indicatedconcentrations (0 μM, 1 μM, 20 μM) in the absence or presence of 2 nMdox. After 6 d, media and cells were harvested with three freeze/thawcycles as described above. Harvested viral samples were titered by flowcytometry.

Continuous Evolution Workflow:

Before initiating directed evolution, 500 μL of the tTA_(wt).mCherryadenovirus (TABLE 12) was amplified on a 10 cm semi-confluent dish ofmutator cells (TABLE 13), creating a diverse viral population. After 5days, cytopathic effect was observed in all cells. This amplified viruswas harvested with three freeze/thaw cycles as described above. Three 15cm, semi-confluent dishes of TRE3G.AdProt cells (˜5 million cells) wereinfected with either 250, 500, or 1,000 μL of the amplified virus in thepresence of dox. Plates were monitored for plaques every day. If morethan one plate displayed a plaque on the same day, the plate with thelowest volume of virus added was used for the next round of evolution.The day after a plaque was observed, three 15 cm semi-confluent dishesof TRE3G.AdProt cells were again infected in the presence of 1 ng/mLdox. The three dishes were infected with 250, 500, or 1,000 μL of viralsupernatant from the previous round's dish. 2 mL of media were saved inEppendorf tubes and stored at −80° C. for future analysis. In Trial 1,the concentration of dox was 2 nM for passages 1-6. At passage 7, theconcentration of dox was increased to 200 nM. For passages 8-12, theconcentration of dox was further increased to 20 μM. In Trial 2, theconcentration of dox was held constant at 200 nM.

Analyzing Promoter Activity in Passaged Viral Supernatant:

TRE3G.GFP cells (TABLE 13) were plated in a 96-well plate at ˜40,000cells/well. The next day, 30 μL of passages 1-12 was used to infect tworows of the 96-well plate. Media was exchanged with or without 20 μM dox5 h post-infection. 72 h post-infection, the cells were washed once withmedia, and stained with 0.2 μg/mL DAPI (Thermo Fisher). Cells weretrypsinized and analyzed on a BD LSR II analyzer.

tTA Evolution Sequencing:

Using a viral DNA isolation kit (NucleoSpin Virus, Macherey-Nagel), DNAwas harvested from 200 μL of the media that was saved after each roundof evolution. A 1.75 kb region of DNA encompassing the CMV promoter andthe tTA gene was PCR-amplified from 1 μL of the harvested DNA for 20rounds of amplification using primers sequencing F and sequencing R(TABLE 14). The resulting PCR product was purified and prepared forIllumina sequencing via the Nextera DNA Library Prep protocol(Illumina). 250 base pair paired-end sequencing was run on a MiSeq(Illumina). Sequencing reads were aligned to the amplicon sequence,which was derived from the tTA_(wt).mCherry adenovirus sequence, usingbwa mem 0.7.12-r1039 [RRID:SCR 010910]. Allele pileups were generatedusing samtools v 0.1.5 mpileup [RRID:SCR_002105] with flags -d 10000000-excl-flags 2052, and allele counts/frequencies were extracted (Li H. etal., Bioinformatics, 25, 2078-2079 (2009); Li H., Bioinformatics, 27,2987-2993 (2011)). Each position within the tTA gene and CMV promoterhad at least 1,000-fold coverage.

Reverse Genetics of tTA Variants:

HEK-293A cells were seeded in a 12-well plate (˜400,000 cells/well). Thenext day, 0.2 μg of the pBud.tTA.mCherry vector was co-transfected with1 μg of the pLVX-TRE3G.eGFP vector using 7.2 μL of polyethyleneimine(Polysciences) and 100 μL OPTI-MEM. 8 h post-transfection, media wasexchanged and dox was added at 20 μM. 48 h post-transfection, sampleswere stained with 0.2 μg/mL DAPI, and analyzed on a BD LSR II analyzer.

Reverse Genetics of CMV Variants by RT-qPCR:

1 μg of pBud.tTA.mCherry was used to transfect HEK-293A cells seeded ina 12-well plate (˜400,000 cells/well) in triplicate. cDNA preparationand RT-qPCR were run as described for tTA (primers: tTA F and tTA R),and mCherry (primers: mCherry F and mCherry R) (TABLE 14) to assess therelative transcript levels of tTA driven by CMV promoter mutants.

Selection Circuit Experiments:

HEK-293A cells expressing wild-type AdPol were plated in a 12-well plate(350,000 cells/well). The next day, each 1 μg circuit ((LoxP)₂Term.Prot,AdProt(STOP), or AdProt.FLAG as a positive control was transfected intosix wells of a 12-well with 6 μL PEI in 100 μL OPTI-MEM. For theAdProt(STOP) circuit, 0.5 mg was co-transfected withpLeu-tRNA.GFP(STOP). Media was changed 4 h post-transfection. The nextday, transfected wells were infected with either the relevant BOI virus,or TTA_(wt).mCherry as a negative control at MOI=5. Cells were washed 3×with media 3 h post-infection. The infections were harvested four dayslater, and titered following the protocol below.

TABLE 12 Adenoviruses constructed and used in this study. NameModifications relative to wild-type Ad5 Ad5.CFP E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3CFP.ΔAdPol.GFP E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol E4R-GFP tTA_(wt).mCherry E1L-tTAΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry tTA_(mut).GFP E1L-tTAaak ΔE1 ΔE3ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-GFP Cre.Ad E1L-Cre ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherryLeuRS.Ad E1L-LeuRS ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry AdEvolve-DESTE1L-DEST ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry ΔAdProtΔAdPol- E1R-CFP ΔE1ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol adenovirus Note: All viruses used in this work werederived from Ad5.CFP (Genbank accession number: MH325112: SEQ ID NO: 97)except for Ad5.GFP.

TABLE 13 Cell lines used in this study. Cell line Polymerase Transgenecassette Producer Wild-type AdPol CMV.AdProt/TRE3G.AdProt Mutator EP-PolCMV.AdProt Selector EP-Pol TRE3G.AdProt Phenotyping AdPol TRE3G.eGFPNote: All cell lines were derived from HEK293A cells except the 633 cellline, which was A549-derived.

TABLE 14Primers employed. The following primers were used to construct expression,adenoviral, and lentiviral plasmids, and to run qPCR experiments. SEQName Sequence - 5′ to 3′ ID NO: delAdPol ccdbTCCCGCGCTTCTTGGAACTTTACATTGTGGGCCACAACATCAACGGCCC 102 FTCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG delPol ccdb RGGCACCTCGGAACGGTTGTTAATTACCTGGGCGGCGAGCACGATCTCGT 158 CCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCdelPol F GCGCGGCCTTCCGGAGCGAGGTGTGGGTGAGCGCAAAGGTGTCCCTGA 159CCATGACCAGCATGAAGGGCACGAGCTGCTTCCCAAAGGCCCCCATCC AAG delPol RCTTGGATGGGGGCCTTTGGGAAGCAGCTCGTGCCCTTCATGCTGGTCAT 160GGTCAGGGACACCTTTGCGCTCACCCACACCTCGCTCCGGAAGGCCGCG C delAdProt FGGCAACGCCACAACATAAAGAAGCAAGCAACATCAACAACAGCTGCCG 124CCAAATAATGTACTAGAGACACTTTCAATAAAG- GCAAATGCTTTTATTTGTA delAdProt RTACAAATAAAAGCATTTGCCTTTATTGAAAGTGTCTCTAGTACATTATTT 125GGCGGCAGCTGTTGTTGATGTTGCTTGCTTCTTTATGTTGTGGCGTTGCC E1.ccdb FATACAAAACTACATAAGACCCCCACCTTATATATTCTTTCCCACCCTTA 161ACCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E1.ccdb RAATAAGAGGAAGTGAAATCTGAATAATTTTGTGTTACTCATAGCGCGTA 162 ACCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE1.CMV F ATACAAAACTACATAAGACCCCCACCTTATATATTCTTTCCCACCCTTA 163AGCCACGCCCACAGATATACGCGTTGACATTG E1.BGHR RAATAAGAGGAAGTGAAATCTGAATAATTTTGTGTTACTCATAGCGCGTA 164ATAGAAGCCATAGAGCCCAC E4.ccdb FCAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTTTCCCACGTTA 165CCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E4.ccdb RAGTAACTTGTATGTGTTGGGAATTGTAGTTTTCTTAAAATGGGAAGTGA 166 CCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE4.SV40P F CAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTTTCCCACGTTA 167CTTCTGTGGAATGTGTGTCAGTTAGGG E4.SV40pA RAGTAACTTGTATGTGTTGGGAATTGTAGTTTTCTTAAAATGGGAAGTGA 168CCTCTAGCTAGAGGTCGACGGTATAC Cre.ccdB FTGGAACTAATCATATGTGGCCTGGAGAAACAGCTAAAGTGCGAAAGCG 169 GCCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCCre.ccdB R CGCGAACAAATGTGGTATGGCTGATTATGATCCTCTAGAGATAATTCTA 170GCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG Cre FTGGCTAGCGTTTAAACTTAAGCTTGGTACCCCTCCGCGGGGATCCTCTA 171GGCCACCATGCCCAAGAAGAAGAGGAAG Cre RCGCGAACAAATGTGGTATGGCTGATTATGATCCTCTAGAGATAATTCTA 172GCTAATCGCCATCTTCCAGCAGG BAC2pUC F CCCGGGAATTCGGATCTGC 130 BAC2pUC RCCGGGAATTCGGATCCTTGAAGAC 131 BamHI.AdProt AAAAAAGGATCCACCATGGGCTCCAGTGAG146 F SalI.AdProt R AAAAAGTCGACTTACATGTTTTTCAAGTGACAAAAAGAAG 147TPL Gene AAAAAAGAATTCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCTGTCTGCGAGGGCCAGCTGT 43 BlockTGGGCTCGCGGTTGAGGACAAACTCTTCGCGGTCTTTCCAGTACTCTTGGATCGGAAACCCGTCGGCCTCCGAACAGGTACTCCGCCGCCGAGGGACCTGAGCGAGTCCGCATCGACCGGATCGGAAAACCTCTCGAGAAAGGCGTCTAACCAGTCACAGTCGCAGGATCCTTTTTT TPL. GA FATCGCCTGGAGAATTCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCT 140 TPL.AdProtATCTAGAGCCGGCGCTTACATGTTTTTCAAGTGACAAAAAGAAG 148 GA R TRE.AdProtATGGGCTCCAGTGAGCAG 149 GA F TRE.AdProt GAATTCTCCAGGCGATCTG 150 GA RTPL.AdProt TGGAGAAGGATCCGCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCT 173 GA F NotI.eGFP FAAAAAAAGCGGCCGCCGCCACCATGGTGAG 174 EcoRI.eGFP RAAAAAAGAATTCCGGCCGCTTTACTTGTAC 175 NotI.mCherryAAAAAAGCGGCCGCGCACCATGGTGAGCAAG 176 F XhoI.mCherryAAAAAACTCGAGACTACTTGTACAGCTCGTCCATG 177 R SalI.TTA FAAAAAAGTCGACATGTCTAGACTGGACAAGAGCAAAG 178 BamHI.TTA RAAAAAAGGATCCTTACCCGGGGAGCATGTCAAGG 179 NotI.TPL FAAAAAAGCGGCCGCACTCTCTTCCGCATCG 144 XbaI.AdProt RAAAAAATCTAGATTACATGTTTTTCAAGTGACAAAAAGAAG 180 pENTR1A.AdTAATCTAGACCCAGCTTTCTTGTACAAAGTTGGCATTATAAG 181 Prot FLAG F pENTR1A.AdAGAAAGCTGGGTCTAGATTACTTATCGTCGTCATCCTTGTAATCCATGTT 182 Prot FLAG RTTTCAAGTGACAAAAAGAAGTGGCG LoxP2TermAGTCGACTGGATCCGGTACCGCCGCATCAACGAGCTC 183 GA F LoxP2TermGAGAGTGCGGCCGCGAATTCGAGGCCCAGAGGGTACC 184 GA R pENT.AdProtGAATTCGCGGCCGCAC 185 GA F pENT.AdProt GGTACCGGATCCAGTCGAC 186 GA RL8.STOP F CAGTGAGCAGGAATAGAAAGCCATTGTCAAAGATCTTGGTTGTGG 187 L8.STOP RCTTTGACAATGGCTTTCTATTCCTGCTCACTGGAGCCCATTG 188 HindIII.LeuRSAAAAAAAAGCTTATGCAAGAGCAATACCGCCC 189 F XhoI.LeuRS RAAAAAACTCGAGTTAGCCAACGACCAGATTGAGGAG 190 Tyr40TAG FAGGGCGATGCCACCTAGGGCAAGCTG 191 Tyr40TAG R CAGCTTGCCCTAGGTGGCATCGCCCT 192HindIII.eGFP AAAAAAAAGCTTGCCACCATGGTGAGCAAGG 193 F XhoI.eGFP RAAAAAACTCGAGTTACTTGTACAGCTCGTCCATGCC 194 AdProt L GGGTACCCAACTCCATGCTC155 AdProt R AAGTGGCGCTCCTAATCTGC 156 tTA F CTGGAGAACGCACTGTACGC 195tTA R GAAGTGGGGGCATAGAATCG 196 mCherry F TCAAGCAGAGGCTGAAGCTG 197mCherry R TCGTTGTGGGAGGTGATGTC 198 RPLP2 F CCATTCAGCTCACTGATAACCTTG 157RPLP2 R CGTCGCCTCCTACCTGCT 158 Sequencing FCTACATAAGACCCCCACCTTATATATTCTTTCC 199 Sequencing RAGCGGGAAAACTGAATAAGAGGAAGTGAAATC 200

TABLE 15 Modifications made to generate adenoviruses used in this study.KanccdB cassette primers used with R6K-kan-ccdB Final targeting cassettetemplate plasmid (unless oligos or primers and Purpose of ModificationGenotype stated otherwise) template (if applicable) modification AdPolΔAdPol delPol ccdb F and delPol ccdb R delPol F and delPol R To preventevolution of deletion the adenoviral polymerase. The error- proneversion was expressed in trans AdProt ΔAdProt delAdProt ccdb F anddelAdProt F and delAdProt R Deletion to make deletion delAdProt ccdb Rselectable marker tTA insertion tTA E1.ccdb F and E1.ccdb R E1.CMV F andE1 BGHR Insertion for directed evolution Cre insertion Cre Cre.ccdB Fand Cre.ccdB R Cre F and Cre R Insertion for genetic selection circuitsLeuRS LeuRS E1.ccdb F and E1.ccdb R E1.CMV.Promoter.Forward Insertionfor genetic insertion and E1.bGH.polyA.Reverse selection circuits usedto amplify from pLeu- tRNA.LeuRS mCheriy mCherry E4.ccdb F and E4.ccdb RE4.SV40P F and Insertion for insertion E4.SV40pA R visualization ofviral infection GFP GFP E4.ccdb F and E4.ccdb R E4.SV40P F and Insertionfor insertion E4.SV40pA R visualization of viral infection ReplacementN/A N/A, the replacement is a one- BAC2pUC F and High copy origin to ofthe low step recombineering since the BAC2pUC R used to allow for thepreparation copy BAC origin switches from amplify the pUC origin ofconcentrated, purified origin with chloramphenicol to ampicillin frompAd/CMV/V5-DEST DNA for transfection the high copy resistant andadenoviral pUC origin production

Example 18. Improving Production of ΔAdProtAΔPol.Adenoviruses

Researchers frequently turn to directed evolution to engineerbiomolecules with novel or improved functions (Romero P. A. and ArnoldF. H., Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 10 (2009); Packer M. S. and Liu D. R.,Nat. Rev. Genet. 16, 379-394 (2015); Shaner N. C. et al., Nat.Biotechnol. 22, 1567-1572 (2004); Gai S. A. and Wittrup K. D., Curr.Opin. Struct. Biol. 17, 467-473 (2007)). The integrated processes ofmutagenesis, selection, and amplification of biomolecules of interest(BOIs) with tailored functions is most typically accomplished in thetest tube, in bacteria, or in yeast (Giger L. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol.,9, 494-498 (2013); Branon, T. C. et al., Nat. Biotechnol. (2018)). Whilethese methods are well-suited to evolve particular phenotypes, theyoften fail to produce biological activities that reliably function inthe complex human cellular environment (Zetsche B. et al., Cell 163,759-771 (2015); Peck S. H. et al., Chem. Biol. 18, 619-630 (2011)).Biological processes that are unique to human cells (e.g. exclusivesignal transduction pathways, distinctive post-translationalmodifications, altered cellular trafficking) often negatively affect theoutcome of BOI activities that were evolved in simpler systems, andshuttled into human systems. While there are a few methods for directedevolution directly in the human cellular environment, these approacheseither require in vitro library generation, or rely on cellular somatichypermutation followed by complicated and labor-intensive screeningprocesses that have a high potential for false positives (Banaszynski L.A. et al., Cell 126, 995-1004 (2006); Wang L. and Tsien R. Y, Nat.Protoc., 1, 1346-1350 (2006); Wang L. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA. 101(48): p. 16745-49 (2004); Hess G. T. et al., Nat. Methods 13,1036-1042 (2016); Piatkevich K. D. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol. 14, 352-360(2018)). New approaches are needed for directed evolution in human cellsthat minimize both the laborious nature of mutagenesis and screening,and the potential for false positives.

Towards this end, a new system for continuous directed evolution wascreated, based on the replication cycle of the human pathogen,adenovirus. In this approach, the replication of a highly mutagenicadenovirus was coupled to the activity of an evolving BOI encoded in theadenoviral genome. This approach relies on a trans-complementationsystem in which the adenoviral protease (AdProt) gene is deleted fromthe adenoviral genome, and its expression and/or function is coupled toBOI activity. The BOI is mutated through a similar trans-complementationsystem in which the adenoviral polymerase (AdPol) is deleted from theadenoviral genome, and an error-prone polymerase (EP-Pol) expressed viathe human cellular host generates mutations during viral replication(Uil T. G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): e30 (2011)).

A four-component system was envisioned for the adenovirus-mediateddirected evolution process that includes an engineered adenoviralconstruct and three cell lines (FIG. 23). The engineered adenoviralgenome, termed pAdEvolve contains the necessary deletions for both AdPoland AdProt to support mutagenesis and selection respectively (for a listof adenoviral constructs used in this study, see TABLE 12). All theresearcher needs to do is recombine the gene encoding the target BOIinto the plasmid at a region defined for robust expression (Suzuki M. etal., Gene Ther. 22, 421-429 (2015)). The linearized AdEvolve genome istransfected into a “producer” cell line that constitutively expressesboth wild-type AdPol (wt-AdPol) and AdProt to generate nascentadenoviruses containing the necessary deletions, and the gene encodingthe BOI (for a list of cell lines used in this study, see TABLE 13).Adenoviruses are then passaged on a “mutator” cell line prior toselection. Previous studies support the concept of generating a diverselibrary prior to imparting selection on an evolving BOI (Esvelt K. M. etal., Nature. 472(7344): p. 499-503 (2011)). The mutator cell lineaccomplishes this by constitutively expressing both the mutagenic EP-Poland the AdProt selection gene. Finally, viruses are serially passaged ona user-generated “selector” cell line. This cell line couples expressionand/or function of AdProt to the desired function of the evolving BOI.The selector cell line also expresses EP-Pol to simultaneously mutatethe BOI throughout the selection process. The cell line constructionallows the researcher to evolve BOIs in a near continuous process bysimply passaging the AdEvolve virus on the selector cells.

The directed evolution protocol was then tested using a simple, highlyevolvable model BOI. Transcription factors exhibit a high degree ofevolvability as their target function can trivially be coupled toexpression of a selectable marker (Dougherty M. J. and Arnold F. H.,Curr. Opin. Biotechnol., 20, 486-491 (2009)). One class of transcriptionfactors has a two-domain architecture: a DNA binding domain (DBD) thatbinds to a target operator in close proximity to the open reading frame(ORF), and a transcriptional activation domain (TAD) that recruits thetranscriptional machinery such as RNA Pol II to the site oftranscription (Ptashne M. and Gann A., Nature, 386, 569-577 (1997)).Frequently, these transcription factors also have a domain that binds aligand to regulate gene expression in response to environmentalconditions. Each of these components can be altered to affect function.The DBD can be evolved to recognize an altered promoter sequence, theTAD can be evolved for improved activity, and the regulatory region canbe evolved to respond to other ligands (Hubbard B. P. et al., Nat.Methods. 12, 939-942 (2015); Buskirk A. R. et al., Chem. Biol., 10,533-540 (2003); Collins C. H. et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 24, 708-712(2006)). Furthermore, the domain architecture can be split into itsindividual components and used to evolve protein-protein interactions(PPIs) via N-hybrid systems (Vidal M. and Legrain P., Nucleic AcidsRes., 27, 919-929 (1999)).

Based on these parameters, experiments were designed to evolve anengineered transcription factor that is frequently used for induciblegene expression in mammalian cells, termed the tetracycline-dependenttranscriptional activator (tTA) (Gossen M. and Bujard H., Proc. Natl.Acad. Sci. USA 89(12): p. 5547-51 (1992)). tTA is a fusion between twoproteins: the bacterial tet repressor (tetR), and 3 copies of the VP16transactivation domain (VP48). TetR acts as a homodimer, binding to apalindromic operator repeat sequence within TRE, and binding doxycycline(dox) within its regulatory core at the homodimer interface (Ramos J. L.et al., Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev., 69, 326-356 (2005)). VP16 consistsof a 12-amino acid minimal transcriptional activation domain derivedfrom the herpes simplex virus transcription factor by the same name(Hirai H. et al., Int. J. Dev. Biol., 54, 1589-1596 (2010)). In theabsence of its small molecule regulator, (dox, tTA binds to its targetoperator, the tet-responsive element (TRE) to induce transcription ofdownstream genes. However, in the presence of dox, tTA is unable to bindto TRE, and gene expression is turned off. In this manner, researcherscan use tTA and dox to inducibly regulate the level of gene expressionin mammalian cells.

tTA was chosen as a BOI for pilot directed evolution studies owing toits reliability as an inducible transcription system, the absence ofhomologs in eukaryotic systems, and the strong literature precedent forevolvability. As a bacterial promoter system that evolved as anantibiotic resistance mechanism, integration of the tTA system in humancells should reduce pleiotropic effects that could have unintendedeffects on selection. The tTA system has been employed numerous times toevolve or report on a multitude of activities included altered DNAbinding specificity, resistance to dox, altered small moleculespecificity, and PPIs via two-hybrid assays (Krueger M. et al., Gene404, 93-100 (2007); Hecht B. et al., 1993. 175(4): p. 1206-10 (1993);Krueger C. et al., Gene, 331, 125-131 (2004); Moncivais K. and Zhang Z.J., Methods Mol. Biol., 812, 259-273 (2012)). tTA has even been evolvedby viral replication in mammalian cells, although this was only done toimprove the overall activity in the context of HIV replication (Das A.T. et al., J. Biol. Chem. 279(18): p. 18776-82 (2004)). These diversedirected evolution experiments gave us confidence that tTA could serveas a highly evolvable model protein in our adenovirus-mediated directedevolution system.

Here, the development of a transcriptional circuit that allowsadenovirus to replicate dependent on tTA-induced expression of AdProt isoutlined. The selectability of this circuit was characterized throughviral competition experiments, which demonstrated that one can evolvegenes using adenovirus by evolving dox resistance in tTA. Finally, theselection scheme was extended beyond transcriptional activation,demonstrating that the system can be used to evolve BOIs with a diversearray of functions.

Improved production of ΔAdProtAΔPol.adenoviruses was first sought byfurther modifying the previously designed constitutive AdPol/AdProtproducer cells (see above for construction and characterization of thiscell line). Previous studies suggested that ectopic AdProt expressioncan enhance the cytopathic effect, and possibly reduce viral titers(Massie B. and Oualikene W., U.S. Pat. No. 6,291,226B1 (2001)).Researchers have shown that using a tTA-inducible system to limit AdProtexpression only to periods of viral production can mitigate the toxiceffects of AdProt.

While no toxicity associated with the CMV promoter-drivenAdProt-expressing cell line was observed, it was surmised that one couldfurther improve viral production by adding tTA-inducible AdProtexpression to constitutive AdProt expression. AdProt/AdPol expressioncells were stably transduced with lentivirus containing an inducibleAdProt cassette (TRE3G.AdProt) to make a new cell line termedAdProt-constitutive/inducible, henceforth called “producer cells” (TABLE13). Interestingly, in the absence of tTA, there is a drop in AdProtexpression, while in the presence of tTA, AdProt levels increase (FIG.35) (Loew R. et al., BMC Biotechnol. 10, 81 (2010)). Furthermore, theproducer cells were able to reliably produce and propagate ΔAdProtΔAdPoladenoviruses.

Example 19. Preparation of Components for Directed Evolution of tTA

There are two primary components necessary for directed evolution of thetet-transactivator protein: a tTA-carrying adenovirus, and a cell linethat induces AdProt under control of a tet-responsive promoter. A tTAexpression cassette was recombineered into the E1L region of theΔAdProtΔAdPol adenoviral genome (TABLE 12) (Suzuki M. et al., Gene Ther.22, 421-429 (2015)).

Next, experiments were designed to generate a “selector” cell line thatcould selectively enrich for tTA-active adenoviruses. An EP-Polexpressing cell line was stably transduced with TRE3G.AdProt lentivirus.Subsequently, these cell lines were transiently transfected withplasmids expressing tTA. It was found through RT-qPCR that tTAinduced >10-fold higher expression of AdProt compared to un-transfectedcontrol samples. (FIG. 35). This experiment also showed that AdProt wasexpressed even in the absence of tTA, although the protein levels couldnot be evaluated owing to the lack of an antibody against AdProt.

Example 20. Enrichment of Active BOI Variants in a tTA TranscriptionalCircuit

To examine whether the TRE3G.AdProt cell line could be used to enrichfor viruses containing positive variants from a large pool of negativevariants, a competition experiment was performed using the tTA system.Wild-type tTA (tTA_(wt)), binds its wild-type target operator, with aconsensus sequence of CCTATCAGTGATAGA (SEQ ID NO: 209), to induce targetgene transcription. A tetR variant that is incapable of binding towild-type operators has been reported, instead possessing an enhancedaffinity for the mutant CCcgTCAGTGAcgGA operator (SEQ ID NO: 210)(Krueger M. et al., Gene 404, 93-100 (2007)). Because tTA is simply afusion between tetR and a VP48 trans-activation domain, it washypothesized that a tTA variant based off the mutant tetR (termedtTA_(mut)) would exhibit the same altered DNA binding specificity.ΔAdProtΔAdPol-adenoviruses were engineered that expressed eithertTA_(wt) and mCherry (tTA_(wt).mCherry) or tTA_(mut) and GFP(tTA_(mut).GFP) using different fluorescent markers to observepopulations of viruses in infected cells by flow cytometry (FIG. 21A,TABLE 12).

To test the hypothesis that AdProt induction could enable enrichment ofactive over inactive BOI variants, tTA_(wt).mCherry and tTA_(mut).GFP atan MOI of ˜0.25 were co-infected in selector cells (TABLE 13) at initialratios of 1:100 or 1:1,000 (FIG. 21A). Three serial passages were thenperformed on selector cells, and the resulting viral populations wereanalyzed via infection of AdPol-expressing but AdProt-lacking HEK293Acells followed by flow cytometry (FIG. 26). In the initial passage, thetTA_(wt).mCherry adenovirus enriched at least 40-50-fold over thetTA_(mut).GFP adenovirus (FIG. 21B). Furthermore, across three rounds ofpassaging, the tTA_(wt).mCherry adenoviruses were consistently enrichedto >90% of the adenoviral population regardless of the starting ratios.Thus, the AdProt-based selection strategy can rapidly enrich active BOIsthat are initially present at low frequency in a viral population.

Example 21. Expanding the Dynamic Range of Selection Using a SelectiveAdenoviral Protease Inhibitor

The dynamic range of selection pressure was next evaluated for AdProt. Alarge dynamic range, meaning that the quantity of AdProt produced scaleswith viral production, would be beneficial for the incremental evolutionof BOI variants with increasing activity. The tTA-based genetic circuitwas used to examine the dynamic range of AdProt selection through theapplication of the tTA allosteric inhibitor, dox. In the presence ofdox, tTA is unable to bind its target operator and AdProt expressionshould be turned off. A synchronous infection was performed withtTA-ΔAdProtΔAdPol adenovirus on TRE3G.AdProt cells, and dox was added atvarious concentrations. The viral titers were then analyzed by flowcytometry analysis of mCherry, which was expressed from the viral genome(FIG. 36). It was found that dox was able to modulate adenoviral titersby ˜10-fold in the context of a synchronous infection. It was also foundthat the linear range of dox spanned two orders of magnitude, indicatingthat one could potentially tune selection pressure relative to theobserved viral infectivity by simply adding more dox.

While an order of magnitude difference in infectivity provides somedynamic range for selecting improved BOI activity, an improvement of 2-3orders of magnitude dynamic range would be beneficial. Enzymes likeAdProt provide a significant advantage as selection markers in thisregard, owing to the potential of small molecule inhibitors administeredat defined concentrations to provide an expanded dose-response regime. Asmall molecule inhibitor could also provide a way to dynamically tuneselection pressure from low to high levels throughout a directedevolution experiment. We synthesized a previously reported vinyl sulfoneinhibitor that was shown to be selective for AdProt in vitro whencompared to a panel of human cathepsins (FIG. 37A) (Grosche P. et al.,Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 25(3):p. 438-43 (2015)). The ability of thevinyl sulfone inhibitor to inhibit adenoviral replication was nextassessed. A synchronous infection on HEK293 cells was performed with anadenovirus that contained both AdPol and AdProt, and the infections weretreated with various concentrations of the inhibitor (TABLE 12). Theresulting viral lysate was harvested, and the virus was titered by flowcytometry (FIG. 37B). It was found that the vinyl sulfone compounddrastically reduced adenoviral replication, and inhibitoryconcentrations were in agreement with values previously reported in theliterature (EC50=5-14 μM). Furthermore, the range of inhibitoryconcentrations spanned almost two orders of magnitude, indicating thatwe could potentially tune the concentration of the inhibitor to matchthe desired strength of selection.

The ability of the vinyl sulfone inhibitor to inhibit adenoviralreplication was next tested in the context of the tTA transcriptionalcircuit. Indeed, when tTA_(wt).mCherry-expressing adenoviruses werechallenged with various concentrations of the vinyl sulfone AdProtinhibitor, it was found that the inhibitor reduced the infectious titerof the tTA_(wt).mCherry virus >600-fold, providing ready access to thedesired 2-3 orders magnitude dynamic range. Notably, the AdProtinhibitor even further reduced infectious titer in the presence of dox,further increasing the accessible dynamic range for this particularexperiment through a combination of regulated AdProt expression anddirect AdProt inhibition (FIG. 37C).

Example 22. Proof-of Concept Directed Evolution of Functional tTAVariants that Acquire Doxycycline Resistance

To demonstrate the viability of this approach to evolve biomolecules inhuman cells, a simple directed evolution experiment was designed thatboth demonstrated the various components of the system. We specificallyaimed to evolve tTA variants that retain transcription-inducing activitybut gain resistance to their small molecule inhibitor, dox. Previously,noninducible variants of TetR were screened by saturation mutagenesis,and 93 different mutants were characterized, indicating a highlikelihood of finding at least one dox-resistant variant if ourselection was sufficiently strong (Hecht B. et al., 1993. 175(4): p.1206-10 (1993)).

Prior to selection, the tTA_(wt).mCherry virus was first passaged on“mutator” cells that constitutively expressed both EP-Pol and AdProt inorder to generate an initial pool of diversity in the viral population(TABLE 13). To evolve dox resistance in tTA, the tTA_(wt).mCherry viruswas then serially passaged in the presence of dox in the “selector” cellline that constitutively expressed EP-Pol and AdProt was induciblyexpressed under control of the tTA target operator (FIG. 22A). A lowinitial MOI (˜0.05) was maintained during the directed evolutionexperiment to minimize the probability that viruses encoding distinctivetTA mutants co-infect the same cell. Viral supernatant was transferredto fresh cell plates upon the first appearance of spreading infection toselect for viruses that encode the dox-resistant tTA variants.

Two evolution experiments were run in parallel (Trials 1 and 2) withdifferent selection pressure strategies (FIG. 22A). In Trial 1, theselection pressure was tuned over time, increasing the dox concentrationfrom 2 nM up to 20 μM. In Trial 2, selection pressure was kept constantby maintaining the dox concentration at 200 nM. To test whetherdox-resistant tTA variants were enriched in the population, the viralmedia from each passage in Trial 1 was used to infect a “phenotyping”cell line containing GFP under control of the endogenous tTA operator(TABLE 13). The phenotyping cell line lacked AdProt, allowing the virusto infect the cells and induce GFP expression, but not to proliferate.GFP induction was measured by the viral population harvested after eachserial passage in the presence of 20 μM dox in these cells using flowcytometry (FIG. 22B). Dox-resistant tTA activity emerged at passage 5,suggesting that dox-resistant variant(s) of tTA may have arisen andenriched in the viral population.

Whether mutations in the tTA gene contributed to this decreased doxsensitivity was next examined. We amplified and sequenced a 1.75-kbregion of the adenoviral genome containing the tTA open reading framefrom virus harvested at each passage during both trials. Using thisapproach, >200 unique mutations were detected that attained ≥1%frequency by passage 4 in Trial 1, even though promoter activity atpassage 4 was still undetectable (FIG. 38A). In Trial 2, 43 mutationsattained ≥1% by passage 4 (FIG. 38C). By passage 5, a single amino acidsubstitution in tTA attained >70% frequency in the viral population inboth trials (E147K in Trial 1 and H100Y in Trial 2). Both of thesemutations became fully fixed in the population within 1-3 passages(FIGS. 38C-38D). Both mutations were previously reported to conferdox-resistance in tTA, which we further confirmed through transientco-transfection of a plasmid encoding eGFP under control of theendogenous tTA operator along with wild-type E147K, or H100YtTA-encoding plasmids into HEK293A cells in the presence or absence ofdox (FIGS. 39A-39B) (Hecht B. et al., 1993. 175(4): p. 1206-10 (1993)).Additional mutations that were previously reported to conferdox-resistance were also observed at >10% frequency at early passages inthe directed evolution experiment (H100Y in Trial 1 and G102D in Trial2).

While Trial 1 appears to have significantly more mutations above 1% thanTrial 2, most of these mutations occur in passage 4 (FIGS. 38A-38B). InTrial 1, while over 200 mutations were observed above 1% in passage 4,only 12 mutations were seen above 1% in passage 3, and only 21 mutationswere seen above 1% in passage 5. These findings suggest that theobserved increase may have been an experimental artifact resulting fromPCR conditions during sample preparation.

Interestingly, Trial 2 appeared to enrich positive variants slightlyfaster than Trial 1. In Trial 2, the most prominent mutation, H100Y,reached 9% frequency by passage 3, while the most prominent mutation inTrial 1, E147K, did not begin to increase significantly until passage 4,where it reached 6% frequency (FIGS. 38C-38D). Between passages 3 and 4,both Trial 1 and Trial 2 were under constant selection pressure,suggesting that the higher concentration of dox in Trial 2 resulted infaster enrichment of dox resistant activity.

Enrichment of mutations were also observed in the CMV promoter region inboth trials. We hypothesized that these mutations may have causedgreater expression of tTA to induce higher concentrations of AdProt.c1485t and c1555t mutations were tested via reverse-transcriptionquantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) of tTA driven by CMV promoters carrying thesemutations (FIGS. 39A-39B). However, we found no significant differencein CMV promoter activity.

Example 23. Generalizable Testing of Selection Circuits

Through directed evolution of tTA, we were able to demonstrate how aselection circuit can be used to evolve a transcription factor in humancells. In the interest of extending the utility of the platform beyonddirected evolution of transcription factors, we sought to demonstratehow alternative selection circuits could be used to evolve differenttypes of functions. To evaluate these new circuits, a rapid functionaltest was created to analyze selection in a given circuit (FIGS.40A-40B). In these experiments, AdProt is placed under control of agiven BOI function and is transiently transfected into wild-type AdPolexpressing cells to generate a model “selector” cell line. The next day,this selector cell line is infected with viruses that either carry amodel BOI that can induce prot expression or activity, or a controlvirus that lacks the model BOI. After a few days, the adenoviruses areharvested, and the titers of the BOI-positive and BOI-negative virusesare compared. Two different types of selection circuits were used formodel BOI activities: recombinase and amino-acyl-tRNA synthetase.

Recombinase Circuit:

Recombinases are frequently used to predictably modify plasmids andgenomes through site-specific DNA recombination (Meinke G. et al., Chem.Rev., 116, 12785-12820 (2016)). They are highly desirable as directedevolution targets owing to their potential utility in genome editing(Gaj T. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 108, 498-503 (2011)). Crerecombinase is a tyrosine-type site-specific recombinase that recombinesDNA at loxP recognition sites and is pervasively used in both molecularbiology and genome editing (Sharan S. K. et al., Nat. Protoc., 4,206-223 (2009); Parkitna J. R. et al., Methods Mol. Biol., 530, 325-342(2009)). We chose to use Cre as a model BOI for a recombinase-basedselection circuit.

Previous recombinase reporter circuits have been designed for otherproteins (Esvelt K. M. et al., Nature. 472(7344): p. 499-503 (2011);Chaikind B. et al., Nucleic Acids Res., 44, 9758-9770 (2016)). In theselection circuit described herein, an SV40 polyA terminator signal isplaced upstream of the AdProt gene, flanked by two loxP sites (FIG.41A). If Cre is not present, transcription will be terminated at theSV40 poly A signal. However, if a Cre.ΔAdProtΔAdPol.adenovirus infects acell line containing this circuit, Cre will recombine the two loxPsites, effectively deleting the SV40 polyA terminator, and allowingtranscription of the downstream AdProt gene. In this way, therecombinase circuit should be selective for adenoviruses that carry anactive Cre variant.

Amino Acyl tRNA Synthetase Circuit:

amino-acyl tRNA synthetases (aaRS) are a highly sought after directedevolution target as they enable genetic code expansion (Liu C. C. andSchultz P. G., Annu. Rev. Biochem. 79: p. 413-44 (2010)). Owing to therequirement that tRNA/aaRS encoding for unnatural amino acids (UAAs) becompletely orthogonal to all endogenous tRNA/aaRS pairs, they aretypically shuttled from one organism to be evolved and used in a secondorganism. This requirement is even more drastic for genetic codeexpansion in mammalian cells as there is currently no robust way toevolve tRNA/aaRS pairs in human cells. To generate tRNA/aaRS pairs thatfunction in mammalian cells, the tRNA/aaRS pair must be endogenous toone organism, evolved in a second organism, then shuttled to the thirdorganism, mammalian cells. Thus, a target tRNA/aaRS pair must beorthogonal to the endogenous pairs in two distinct organisms, whilestill functioning to charge the tRNA specifically with the UAA. As aresult, only a few UAAs have been used in human cells, and they are allused with just a few tRNA/aaRS pairs that are promiscuous for severalUAAs (Italia J. S. et al., Biochem. Soc. Trans., 45, 555-562 (2017)). Areliable method for evolving tRNA/aaRS pairs in human cells would enableresearchers to greatly expand the repertoire of UAAs that can betranslated in mammalian systems.

A Leucine tRNA/amino-acyl tRNA synthetase pair (tRNA^(Leu)/LeuRS) thatcharged a tRNA that recognized the amber stop codon with leucine waschosen for analysis. By using a canonical amino acid for our circuit, wedid not need to supplement the cells with a UAA. Typically, directedevolution of tRNA/aaRS pairs involves placement of a premature amberstop codon in a selectable marker. Only synthetases that can charge anamber stop anticodon tRNA with the unnatural amino acid will be able tosuppress the amber stop codon and translate the full selection marker.In order to set up a similar system, the AdProt gene was mutated tointroduce an amber stop codon at leucine 8 (termed AdProt-STOP) (FIG.41B). If cells transfected with AdProt-STOP and the amber stop antocodontRNA were infected with an adenovirus encoding LeuRS, the tRNA would becharged with leucine and incorporated into the AdProt sequence in placeof the amber stop codon, and full length AdProt would be expressed. IfLeuRS is not present, the AdProt sequence would be prematurelyterminated at position 8, and the adenovirus would be unable topropagate.

Both the recombinase and synthetase circuits were transfected, and theirability to support the replication of AdProt-deleted adenoviruses thatexpressed the relevant biomolecule and adenoviruses that expressed anirrelevant biomolecule was tested (FIG. 42). It was found that theCre.Ad replicated over 20-fold better than a control adenovirus on therecombinase circuit. On the amino-acyl tRNA synthetase circuit, thecontrol adenovirus was unable to replicate at all, while the LeuRS.Adwas able to replicate efficiently. The control adenovirus, Cre.Ad, andLeuRS.Ad all replicated robustly on a control circuit thatconstitutively expressed protease. Altogether, these data indicate thatboth recombinase and amino-acyl tRNA synthetase circuits could selectfor adenoviruses carrying the relevant genes by coupling gene functionto AdProt activity.

Example 24. Discussion

Here, directed evolution was performed on the tet-transactivator to gainresistance to its small molecule regulator, dox, while retainingtranscriptional activation activity. A transcriptional circuit wasgenerated that coupled adenoviral replication to tTA-induced expressionof prot. Enrichment of tTA activity was characterized in this circuit byperforming competition experiments with adenoviruses that lacked tTA orcarried inactive tTA variants. Dox resistance was then evolved bypassaging a tTA.ΔAdPol.Δprot adenovirus on selector cells in thepresence of dox. Two previously reported dox resistant mutants wereidentified that we validated by reverse genetics. It was alsodemonstrated how one can use a small molecule inhibitor to tune theselection stringency of AdProt, and how different selection circuitscould be used to drive the directed evolution of diverse functions.

As described herein, AdProt can serve as a robust selectable marker foradenovirus-mediated directed evolution in human cells. As an enzyme withcatalytic activity, one might not expect AdProt to exhibit a dynamicrange of selection. However, as shown herein, AdProt was able tomodulate viral titers ˜10-fold in response to protease levels.Importantly, a small molecule inhibitor of protease described hereincould be easily used to further enhance this dynamic range to severalorders of magnitude. It is noteworthy that the AdProt inhibitor may alsobe employed to actively fine-tune selection stringency over the courseof a directed evolution experiment, simply by modulating the compound'sconcentration in cell culture media. Indeed, the vinyl sulfone inhibitorwas able to reduce adenoviral infectivity in the context of the tTAtranscriptional circuit by treating with and without dox. However, ifthe inhibitor increased the selection pressure on the inactive variantrelative to the active variant, we would expect the tTA-adenovirusespassaged in the presence of dox to exhibit a greater reduction in titerrelative to the tTA-adenoviruses passaged without dox. While there was asignificant difference in the titers between the +dox and −dox samples,the degree of reduction upon treatment with the inhibitor did notchange. It is unclear from this assay if the inhibitor would modulatethe selection stringency of different variants in the same infection.Performing the competition experiments in the presence of the proteaseinhibitor could be more enlightening. Nevertheless, using this specificinhibitor should enable one to tune selection stringency, and improvethe dynamic range of the AdProt selection circuit.

In our directed evolution experiments, multiple mutations were observedin the promoter regions upstream of the tTA coding sequence. Whileneither CMV mutation in Trial 1 appeared to affect tTA expression, it ispossible these mutations have other effects that assist in viralreplication. The c1555t mutation in particular enriches towards the lastfew passages of Trial 1. This mutation destroys an SP1 transcriptionfactor binding site towards the beginning of the CMV promoter (Meier J.L. and Stinski M. F., Intervirology, 39, 331-342 (1996)). Since SP1binding sites are bi-directional, it is possible that the promoter isdriving greater expression of the adenoviral pIX gene. The pIX promoteris positioned only 15 bp from the 5′-end of the CMV promoter, and only144 bp from c1555. It is possible that strong pIX expression from theCMV promoter is maladaptive for adenovirus, and there would be aselective advantage to reducing expression. In support of this theory,in Trial 2 enrichment was also seen of the g1704a mutation, whichdestroys an SP1 binding site in the pIX promoter itself (Babiss L. E.and Vales L. D., J. Virol., 65, 598-605 (1991)). Elucidating the role ofthese mutations in pIX expression could help us better understand howtransgene positioning in the adenoviral genome influences adenoviralreplication.

In theory, one can efficiently screen genetic libraries consisting of10⁸ members using a combination of EP-Pol-mediated mutagenesis andAdProt-mediated selection. To increase the library sizes one can screen,one can simply scale-up infections. By running the directed evolutionexperiments in more plates, one can increase our library sizes at least10-fold. While one can likely run directed evolution in even largercultures, the limitations associated with researcher-run tissue culturecapacity become greater. The current system relies on serial passagingof adenovirus on adherent cells. Transitioning to suspension cells wouldenable variant libraries several orders of magnitude larger than one cancurrently explore. The integration of emerging targeted mutagenesistechniques, such as Muta-T7, could further focus mutations only to theBOI gene and also increase mutation library size (Moore C. L. et al., J.Am. Chem. Soc. (2018)).

Larger library sizes require greater enrichment during selection toefficiently pull out positive variants. The viral competition experimentdescribed herein demonstrated that one can enrich positive variantsroughly 50-fold. However, in the three passages tested, enrichment oftTA_(wt)-mCherry adenovirus decreased from 50 to 10 between passages oneand two. While it is expected that positive variants will not enrich aswell as the population frequency asymptotically approaches 1, it isunclear how enrichment would change at even lower initial ratios. Thecompetition experiment was run at ratios of 1:100 and 1:1000, far higherthan what one would expect for a positive variant that emerges in aninitial library. These ratios enabled us to accurately quantifyenrichment via flow cytometry, however this approach is limited forassessing enrichment of ultra-low frequency variants.

The next-generation sequencing performed on the evolved viralpopulations provides a valuable supplement to the phenotypic enrichmentanalysis performed via the competition experiments. Analyzing allelefrequencies across the serial passaging experiment allows one to explorehow individual variants were enriched from one passage to the next.Unfortunately, the error rate of next generation sequencing is roughly0.24% per base, which does not allow one to analyze allele frequenciesmuch deeper than the phenotypic enrichment analysis (Pfeiffer F. et al.,Sci. Rep., 8, 10950 (2018)). Nevertheless, one can still analyzeenrichment of individual alleles and how they fluctuate throughout thedirected evolution experiment. A 5-12-fold enrichment of the E147Kvariants and H100Y variants were seen during the most dramaticamplifications, a more modest rate than what was seen in the competitionexperiments. The fact that greater enrichment was seen in a competitionexperiment between adenoviruses containing distinct tTA variants thatbind to different promoters suggests that the DNA binding selection maybe more stringent than the dox-based selection. This hypothesis issupported by the fact that dox-resistant mutations in Trial 2, the morestringent selection, enriched more quickly than dox-resistant mutationsin Trial 1.

Finally, it was demonstrated how one can use AdProt-based selection toevolve other functions such as recombinase activity or amino-acyl-tRNAsynthetase activity. Both of these activities are highly sought afterfor both research and therapeutic purposes, and the ability to evolvethese functions in human cells is desirable (Italia J. S. et al.,Biochem. Soc. Trans., 45, 555-562 (2017); Gaj T. et al., Nucleic AcidsRes., 41, 3937-3946 (2013)). To perform directed evolution to generaterecombinases with truly altered specificity, or tRNA/aaRS pairs that canspecifically incorporate unnatural amino acids, a robust negativeselection approach is required to select against nonspecific activities(Liu C. C. and Schultz P. G., Annu. Rev. Biochem. 79: p. 413-44 (2010);Carlson J. C. et al., Nat. Chem. Biol. 10, 216-222 (2014)). As shownherein, an adenoviruses carrying a functional recombinase or aaRSreplicates better on AdProt-based selection circuits than adenovirusescarrying irrelevant BOIs. Furthermore, these experiments demonstrate theutility of using a rapid transfection experiment to test new selectionschemes. This experimental setup obviates the need for cell linegeneration, and should enable researchers to quickly test theirselection circuit for feasibility prior to cell line development andserial passaging. Selection couples for an assortment of protein classesincluding TALENs, proteases, protein-protein interactions, RNApolymerases, Cas9 and beyond could all be tested using this approach(Esvelt K. M. et al., Nature. 472(7344): p. 499-503 (2011); Hubbard B.P. et al., Nat. Methods. 12, 939-942 (2015); Dickinson B. C. et al.,Nat. Commun. 5: p. 5352 (2014); Hu J. H. et al., Nature 556, 57-63(2018)).

The platform described herein offers several advantages relative toextant strategies for human cell-based directed evolution that rely ontime-intensive screens and extensive in vitro manipulations. The use ofadenovirus allows researchers to continuously mutate, select, andamplify genes of interest by simply transferring viral supernatant fromone cell plate to the next. Due to this simple viral passaging protocol,library sizes are restricted only by a researcher's tissue culturecapacity. Cheating is minimized because mutations are specificallydirected to the viral genome. Safety is maximized because theadenoviruses used lack multiple genes required for replication in thewild. Moreover, the user-defined nature of the selector cell and thebroad tropism of adenovirus type 5 enable directed evolution to beperformed in a diverse array of human cell types.

By making it possible for researchers to evolve diverse BOI functions inthe same environment in which the BOIs are intended to function, thishuman cell-based directed evolution platform holds significant potentialto enable researchers to rapidly evolve a wide variety of biomoleculesin human cells. Thus, this method should impact the development of newtools for research, our ability to rapidly generate effectivebiomolecular therapeutics, and our understanding of metazoanevolutionary biology.

Example 25. Materials and Methods for Examples 26-27

Vectors and Cloning:

Materials:

All enzymes were obtained from New England BioLabs unless statedotherwise. All primers were obtained from either ThermoFisher or SigmaAldrich. All primers are listed in TABLE 18. eCFP-expression vector andRFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus vector were generated in-house and sequences areavailable upon request.

Adenoviral Cloning:

All adenoviruses were generated from a parent Ad5.CFP vector derivedfrom pAd/CMV/V5-DEST (ThermoFisher). Adenoviral constructs wereengineered using ccdB recombineering, as previously described (Wang H.et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)), in DH10B Escherichia colicarrying the Adenovirus type 5 genome in a chloramphenicol-resistantbacterial artificial chromosome (AdBAC). Cells carrying an AdBAC weretransformed with the temperature-sensitive psc101-gbaA recombineeringplasmid (Wang H. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 42, e37 (2014)), plated onLB (Difco) agar (Alfa Aesar) with 10 μg/mL tetracycline (CalBioChem) and10 μg/mL chloramphenicol (Alfa Aesar), and incubated for 24 h at 30° C.Colonies were selected and grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracyclineand 10 μg/mL chloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnightcultures were diluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10μg/mL chloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining anOD₆₀₀ of 0.3-0.4. The ccdA antitoxin and recombineering machinery werethen induced by adding L-arabinose (Chem-Impex) and L-rhamnose (SigmaAldrich) to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the appropriate kan-ccdB targeting cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8ms, 0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recoveredin super optimal broth with catabolite repression (SOC; Teknova) with 2mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, then plated on LB agar plates with50 μg/mL kanamycin (Alfa Aesar) and 2 mg/mL L-arabinose and incubatedfor 24 h at 30° C. Colonies that grew under these conditions hadincorporated the kan-ccdB targeting cassette and were picked intriplicate and grown in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycin and 2 mg/mLL-arabinose at 30° C. for 18-21 h. (Note: The colonies were picked intriplicate because multimers of the AdBAC formed at a high rate (˜30-50%of colonies) during the first recombineering step. These multimers areunable to be successfully recombineered in the next step. Picking threecolonies and recombineering them separately in parallel increases thechances of picking a monomer that can be successfully recombineered.)The cultures were then diluted 25-fold in LB with 50 μg/mL kanamycin and2 mg/mL L-arabinose and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until they reached anOD₆₀₀ of 0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced byadding L-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL and then growingthe cultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the final targeting cassette intended to replace thekan-ccdB cassette currently integrated in the genome (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms,0.1 cm cuvette, BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recovered inSOC with 2 mg/mL L-arabinose at 30° C. for 2 h, and then were washedonce with LB to remove the L-arabinose and prevent continued productionof the ccdA antitoxin. The cultures were then plated on LB agar platesat various dilutions with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 g/mLchloramphenicol and incubated for 24 h at 37° C. Without the ccdAantitoxin, the ccdB toxin will kill cells that have not replaced theintegrated kan-ccdB cassette with the final targeting cassette. Thecolonies that grow should have the final targeting cassette integrated,but were screened by PCR or sequencing to confirm cassette integrationas some colonies may simply inactivate the ccdB toxin.

Once a clone with all of the desired genetic changes was found andconfirmed by Sanger sequencing, the AdBAC single-copy replication originwas replaced with the high copy pUC origin. The cells with the correctclone were grown in LB containing 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol overnight at 30° C. (18-21 h). Overnight cultures werediluted 25-fold in LB with 10 μg/mL tetracycline and 10 μg/mLchloramphenicol and grown at 30° C. for ˜2 h until attaining an OD₆₀₀ of0.3-0.4. The recombineering machinery was then induced by addingL-rhamnose to a final concentration of 2 mg/mL each and then growing thecultures at 37° C. for 40 min to an OD₆₀₀ of ˜0.6. The cultures werethen placed on ice, washed twice with ice-cold, sterile ddH₂O,resuspended in ˜25 μL of ice-cold, sterile ddH2O, and electroporatedwith ˜200 ng of the pUC origin cassette (1.8 kV, 5.8 ms, 0.1 cm cuvette,BioRad Micropulser). The cells were then recovered in SOC at 30° C. for2 h, then plated on LB agar plates with 100 μg/mL ampicillin andincubated for 24 h at 37° C. The resulting ampicillin-resistant coloniesshould have the pUC origin inserted and were checked by verifyingexpected restriction digestion patterns. The colonies were grown in 25mL LB containing 100 μg/mL ampicillin and the DNA was purified using theZymoPURE II plasmid midiprep kit (Zymo Research) according to themanufacturer's instructions. The DNA was digested with PacI overnight at37° C. in order to liberate and linearize the adenoviral genome. Thelinearized DNA was purified using the E.Z.N.A. cycle pure kit (OmegaBio-tek) according to the manufacturer's instructions.

The following modifications in TABLE 19 were made using primers in TABLE18 to obtain the adenoviruses used in this work (TABLE 16).

Ptre3G.Egfp Vector:

A 762 bp fragment containing eGFP was amplified from the eGFP-N3 vector(Takara Bio) using the primers NotI.eGFP F and EcoRI.eGFP R (TABLE 18)and ligated into the pLVX-TRE3G vector (Takara Bio) using NotI and EcoRIto create the pLVX-TRE3G.eGFP vector.

Ptre3G.Puror Vector:

The pLVX-TRE3G vector was linearized using primers LVX F and LXV R(TABLE 18), and a 439 bp fragment containing blastR was amplified frompLenti6/V5-DEST (Thermo Fisher) using primers LVX.blast F and LVX.blastR (TABLE 18). The two amplicons were assembled to form pLVX.TRE3G.blastusing the HiFi DNA assembly kit (New England Biolabs). A 629 bp fragmentcontaining puroR was amplified from pLVX.TRE3G using primers NotI.puro Fand EcoRI.puro R (TABLE 18) and was ligated into pLVX.TRE3G.blast usingNotI and EcoRI to form pLVX.TRE3G.puroR.

Ptre3G.Blastr Vector:

A 428 bp fragment containing blastR was amplified from pLenti6/V5-DEST(Thermo Fisher) using primers NotI.blast F and EcoRI.blast R (TABLE 18)and ligated into pLVX-TRE3G to form TRE3G.blastR.

Cell Culture and Lentivirus Transduction:

Cell Culture:

All cells were cultured at 37° C. and 5% CO₂. All cell lines werederived from a parent HEK293A cell line (ATCC) that constitutivelyexpressed either wild-type or error-prone AdPol (see chapter 2) andcultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM; Cellgro)supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Cellgro), 1%penicillin-streptomycin (Cellgro), and 1% L-glutamine (Cellgro). eGFPreporter cells and TRE3G.blastR cells were cultured in 1 μg/mL puromycin(Corning), and TRE3G.puroR cells were cultured in 5 μg/mL blasticidin(Thermo Fisher) to stably maintain transgenes (TABLE 17).

Generation of Cell Lines by Lentiviral Transduction:

In a typical protocol, ˜9×10⁶ 293FT cells were plated on apoly-D-lysine-coated 10 cm dish. The next day, the cells wereco-transfected with plasmids from the previously describedthird-generation packaging system (Dull T. et al., J. Virol. 72,8463-8471 (1998)): 15 μg RRE, 6 μg REV, 3 μg VSVG, and 15 μg transfervector using 60 μL Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher). Cultures weremaintained in 5 mL total volume of OPTI-MEM (Gibco) throughout thetransfection. After 8 h, the media was exchanged for fresh DMEM. After48 h, media was harvested and centrifuged for 5 min at 162×g to clearthe cell debris. The supernatant was used to transduce HEK293A cellssupplemented with 4 μg/mL polybrene (Sigma). After 24 h, the media wasexchanged for fresh DMEM. After 48 h, media was exchanged again for DMEMcontaining either 1 μg/mL puromycin or 5 μg/mL blasticidin to selectstable cell lines (as indicated above).

Generating Adenovirus from Transfection:

All adenoviruses were produced by transfecting a PacI-linearized vectorinto appropriate trans-complementing HEK293A cells. Briefly, 24 μg ofPacI-digested adenovirus vectors transfected with 144 μL PEI, 1 mLOptiMEM (Gibco) into a 15 cm plate of the corresponding cell line (10million cells). Media was replaced 8 h after transfection. Media wasthen intermittently replaced every 2-3 days until plaques were observed(typically ˜3 weeks). Once plaques were observed, cytopathic effect(CPE) was observed in all cells within 5 d. Upon complete CPE, the cellsand media were harvested, and then frozen at −80° C. for at least 30 minand then thawed at 37° C. for 15 min for three total freeze/thaw cycles.The cell debris was removed by centrifugation at >1,462×g for 15 min andthe supernatant was moved to a new Eppendorf tube and stored at −80° C.until use.

Determining Adenoviral Titer by Flow Cytometry:

Adenoviral titers were determined through flow cytometry. Known volumesof AdPol-deleted viral supernatants were added to wild-type AdPol cells(TABLE 17). The next day, cells were washed once with media, stainedwith 0.2 μg/mL DAPI, and then analyzed on a BD LSR II Analyzer forfluorescent protein expression. Infectious titers were determined bymeasuring the percentage of cells infected by a known volume of virus.To minimize counting cells that were infected by more than one virus andto minimize any background fluorescence, data were only considered ifthey fell within the linear range, which typically encompassed sampleswhere 1-10% of cells were infected.

Testing the eGFP Reporter Cell Line by Transient Transfection of tTA:

1.5 μg each of a Tet-On Advanced vector (Takara Bio), and eCFP vectorwere co-transfected with 6 μL PEI into a 6-well plate seeded with eGFPreporter cells (˜10⁶ cells per well) (TABLE 17). Two days later, cellswere harvested in 600 μL media and analyzed on a BD LSR Fortessa HTSAnalyzer for fluorescent protein expression. Cells were excited using a405 nm and 488 nm laser. Cells were back-gated for CFP expression at450/50 nm emission to ensure that only transfected cells were analyzed.eGFP inducibility was quantified at 515/20 nm emission at based on thenumber of eGFP+ cells.

Enrichment of Active BOI Variants Via FACS:

A 1:10 mixture of tTA_(wt).mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus:tTA_(mut).mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus (TABLE 16) was used to infectreporter cells (TABLE 17) seeded in a 6-well plate (˜10⁶ cells per well)at an overall MOI=1. Two days later, cells were stained with 0.2 μg/mLDAPI, harvested in 600 μL media, and sorted on a BD FACS Aria. Cellswere excited using a 405 nm, 488 nm, and 561 nm laser. 16,481 cells wereharvested based on a stringent gate for both mCherry fluorescence(emission at 610/20 nm), and eGFP fluorescence (emission at 530/30).Cells were harvested in media, and plated on top of wild-typeAdPol-expressing cells to allow the adenovirus to amplify from thesorted cells. 8 days later, viral supernatants were harvested andtitered as described above, and used to infect reporter cells seeded ina 6-well plate (˜10⁶ cells per well) at an overall MOI=1. The next day,cells were stained with 0.2 μg/mL DAPI, harvested in 600 μL media, andanalyzed on a BD FACS Aria using the same parameters.

Resazurin Assay:

A 96-well plate was seeded with HEK293A cells (˜15,000) and treated witheither puromycin HCl (Corning), Hygromycin B (Thermo Fisher),Blasticidin S HCl (Thermo Fisher), or G418 (Enzo). Two days later, 10 μLof 0.1 mg/mL resazurin (MilliporeSigma) was added and incubated for 1.5h. Media was transferred to a fresh 96-well plate and fluorescence wasanalyzed on a Bio-Tek Synergy H1 Hybrid Microplate Reader.

Time Course of Antibiotic Inhibition of Adenoviral Replication:

RFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus (TABLE 16) was used to infect a 24-well plate ofwild-type AdPol cells (150,000 cells/well) (TABLE 17) at MOI=1, andeither blasticidin or puromycin was added at various time pointsfollowing the infection. Viral supernatants were harvested ˜48 hpost-infection, and titered by flow cytometry as described above.

tTA-Induced Resistance to Antibiotic Inhibition of AdenoviralReplication:

Either RFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus, or tTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus (TABLE16) was used to infect a 24-well plate of either wild-type AdPol cells,TRE3G.puroR cells, or TRE3G.blastR cells (150,000 cells/well) (TABLE 17)at MOI=1, and either puromycin or blasticidin was added 10 hpost-infection. Viral supernatants were harvested ˜48 h post-infection,and titered by flow cytometry as described above.

Enrichment of tTA-Expressing Adenovirus:

A 1:10 mixture of tTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus andCFP.GFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus (TABLE 16) was used to infect a 24-well plateof TRE3G.blastR cells (150,000 cells/well) (TABLE 17) at MOI=0.7, andblasticidin was added 10 h post-infection. Viral supernatants wereharvested ˜48 h post-infection, and titered by flow cytometry asdescribed above.

TABLE 16 Adenoviruses constructed and used in this study. NameModifications relative to wild-type Ad5 tTA_(wt.)mCherry.ΔAdPol E1L-tTAΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-mCherry tTA_(mut.)mCherry.ΔAdPolE1L-tTA_(aak) ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol E4R-GFP RFP.ΔAdPol *E1L-RFP1.2 ΔE1ΔE3 ΔAdProt ΔAdPol CFP.GFP.ΔAdPol E1R-CFP ΔE1 ΔE3 ΔAdPol E4R-GFP *RFP1.2was described previously (Wang L. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A.101(48): p. 16745-49 (2004)). Note: All viruses used in this work werederived from Ad5.CFP (Genbank accession number: MH325112: SEQ ID NO:97).

TABLE 17 Cell lines used in this study. Cell line Polymerase Transgenecassette Wild-type AdPol wt-AdPol None Reporter EP-Pol TRE3G.eGFPTRE3G.puroR wt-AdPol TRE3G.puroR TRE3G.blastR wt-AdPol TRE3G.puroR Note:All cell lines were derived from HEK293A.

TABLE 18 Primers used in this study. Name Sequence - 5′ to 3′ SEQ ID NO:delAdPol ccdb F TCCCGCGCTTCTTGGAACTTTACATTGTGGGCCACAACATCAAC 102GGCCCTCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG delPol ccdb RGGCACCTCGGAACGGTTGTTAATTACCTGGGCGGCGAGCACGA 158 TCTCGTCCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCdelPol F GCGCGGCCTTCCGGAGCGAGGTGTGGGTGAGCGCAAAGGTGTC 159CCTGACCATGACCAGCATGAAGGGCACGAGCTGCTTCCCAAAG GCCCCCATCCAAG delPol RCTTGGATGGGGGCCTTTGGGAAGCAGCTCGTGCCCTTCATGCT 160GGTCATGGTCAGGGACACCTTTGCGCTCACCCACACCTCGCTCC GGAAGGCCGCGC E1.ccdb FATACAAAACTACATAAGACCCCCACCTTATATATTCTTTCCCAC 161CCTTAACCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E1.ccdb RAATAAGAGGAAGTGAAATCTGAATAATTTTGTGTTACTCATAG 162 CGCGTAACCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE1.CMV F ATACAAAACTACATAAGACCCCCACCTTATATATTCTTTCCCAC 163CCTTAAGCCACGCCCACAGATATACGCGTTGACATTG E1.BGHR RAATAAGAGGAAGTGAAATCTGAATAATTTTGTGTTACTCATAG 164CGCGTAATAGAAGCCATAGAGCCCAC E4.ccdb FCAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTTTCCCA 165CGTTACCCCTCATCAGTGCCAACATAGTAAG E4.ccdb RAGTAACTTGTATGTGTTGGGAATTGTAGTTTTCTTAAAATGGGA 166 AGTGACCCGCTCATTAGGCGGGCE4.SV40P F CAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTTTCCCA 167CGTTACTTCTGTGGAATGTGTGTCAGTTAGGG E4.SV40pA RAGTAACTTGTATGTGTTGGGAATTGTAGTTTTCTTAAAATGGGA 168AGTGACCTCTAGCTAGAGGTCGACGGTATAC BAC2pUC F CCCGGGAATTCGGATCTGC 130BAC2pUC R CCGGGAATTCGGATCCTTGAAGAC 131 NotI.eGFP FAAAAAAAGCGGCCGCCGCCACCATGGTGAG 174 EcoRI.eGFP RAAAAAAGAATTCCGGCCGCTTTACTTGTAC 175 LVX F CGGGGCGCGTCTGGAAC 201 LVX RGGTAAGCTTGGGCTGCAGG 202 LVX.blast F ACCTGCAGCCCAAGCTTACCATGGCCAAGCCTTTG203 LVX blast R ATTGTTCCAGACGCGCCCCGTTAGCCCTCCCACACATAACCAG 204 AGNotI.puro F AAAAAAGCGGCCGCACCATGACCGAGTACAAGCCCACG 205 EcoRI.puro RAAAAAAGAATTCTCAGGCACCGGGCTTGC 206 NotI.blast FAAAAAAGCGGCCGCACCATGGCCAAGCCTTTG 207 EcoRI.blast RAAAAAAGAATTCTTAGCCCTCCCACACATAACCAG 208

TABLE 19 Modifications made to generate adenoviruses used in this study.KanccdB cassette primers used with R6K-kan-ccdB Final targeting cassettetemplate plasmid (unless oligos or primers and Purpose of ModificationGenotype stated otherwise) template (if applicable) modification AdPolΔAdPol delPol ccdb F and delPol delPol F and delPol R To preventevolution deletion ccdb R of the adenoviral polymerase. The error- proneversion was expressed in trans tTA insertion tTA E1.ccdb F and E1.ccdb RE1.CMV F and E1 Insertion as model BOI BGHR mCherry mCherry E4.ccdb Fand E4.ccdb R E4.SV40P F and Insertion for insertion E4.SV40pA Rvisualization of viral infection eGFP eGFP E4.ccdb F and E4.ccdb RE4.SV40P F and Insertion for insertion E4.SV40pA R visualization ofviral infection Replacement N/A N/A, the replacement is a BAC2pUC F andHigh copy origin to of the low one-step recombineering BAC2pUC R used toallow for the copy BAC since the origin switches amplify the pUC originpreparation of origin with from chloramphenicol to from pAd/CMV/V5-concentrated, purified the high copy ampicillin resistant DEST DNA fortransfection pUC origin and adenoviral production

Example 26. FACS-Based Screening of Positive BOI Variants forAdenovirus-Mediated Directed Evolution

A fluorescence-activated cell sorting-(FACS)-based screening approachwas developed for adenovirus-mediated directed evolution based onBOI-coupled expression of an eGFP reporter gene (FIG. 43).ΔAdPol.adenoviruses carrying both the gene encoding the BOI and anmCherry gene as a fluorescent reporter of infection (see TABLE 16 foradenoviruses used in this study) are used to infect cells that expressEP-Pol to generate mutational libraries, and express functional eGFPunder control of the desired BOI function, termed reporter cells (seeTABLE 17 for cell lines used in this study). Adenoviruses that carryfunctional BOI variants will induce expression of eGFP. Reporter cellsare sorted based on both mCherry fluorescence to detect infected cells,and eGFP fluorescence to detect BOI-induced expression of eGFP via FACS.Sorted cells are subsequently added to a plate of cells that expressEP-Pol to amplify the adenovirus population before the next round ofscreening while simultaneously generating mutational diversity in theBOI.

The eGFP screening approach was tested using tTA as a model BOI (GossenM. and Bujard H., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89(12): p. 5547-51 (1992)).To generate a suitable reporter cell line for tTA activity, an HEK293Acell line that already expressed EP-Pol was stably transduced withlentivirus expressing eGFP under transcriptional control of atTA-inducible promoter (full operon, termed TRE3G.eGFP), and isolatedsingle colonies (TABLE 17) (Loew R. et al., BMC Biotechnol. 10, 81(2010)). This reporter cell line was co-transfected with a plasmid thatexpressed tTA, and a plasmid that expressed CFP as a transfectioncontrol, and analyzed eGFP fluorescence by flow cytometry (FIG. 44). Inthe absence of tTA, less than 1% of reporter cells were positive foreGFP expression. However, in the presence of tTA, over 58% of cellsexpressed eGFP, indicating that this cell line could report on tTAactivity via eGFP fluorescence.

Whether this cell line could be used to enrich for adenoviruses carryingpositive tTA variants was next tested. Wild-type tTA (tTA_(wt)), bindsits wild-type target operator, with a consensus sequence ofCCTATCAGTGATAGA (SEQ ID NO: 209), to induce target gene transcription. AtetR variant that is incapable of binding to wild-type operators hasbeen reported, instead possessing an enhanced affinity for the mutantCCcgTCAGTGAcgGA (SEQ ID NO: 210) operator (Krueger M. et al., Gene 404,93-100 (2007)). Because tTA is simply a fusion between tetR and a VP48trans-activation domain, it was hypothesized that a tTA variant basedoff the mutant tetR (termed tTA_(mut)) would exhibit the same alteredDNA binding specificity.

mCherry.ΔAdPol-adenoviruses were engineered that expressed eithertTA_(wt) or tTA_(mut), and the reporter cells were infected at an MOI of1 to maintain a large library size, and a ratio of 1:10tTA_(wt).ΔAdPol.adenovirus:tTA_(mut).ΔAdPol.adenovirus (FIGS. 45A-45B,TABLE 16). Only cells that exhibited the most intense mCherry signal andeGFP fluorescence signal were sorted to ensure we sorted only cells thatwere infected by tTA_(wt).ΔAdPol.adenovirus. Sorted cells were plated ona pre-plated culture of cells expressing wild-type AdPol to amplify theΔAdPol.adenovirus population from the sorted cells. The ability of theresulting adenovirus population to induce eGFP fluorescence was analyzedby re-infecting the reporter cells and analyzing mCherry and eGFPfluorescence by flow cytometry. It was found that the percentage ofinfected cells that were positive for eGFP increased to 23% from 2% inthe initial sort, a 10-fold increase in adenovirus-mediated eGFPactivity. While we were unable to determine the relative amount oftTA_(wt).ΔAdPol.adenovirus to tTA_(mut).ΔAdPol.adenovirus because bothadenoviruses had the same fluorescent marker, it is clear from the10-fold increase in eGFP fluorescence that we were able to successfullyenrich for tTA_(wt).ΔAdPol.adenoviruses using eGFP as a fluorescentreporter.

Example 27. Antibiotic Selection of Positive BOI Variants forAdenovirus-Mediated Directed Evolution

Experiments were designed to create an antibiotic selection-basedplatform for adenovirus-mediated directed evolution of BOIs. For anantibiotic selection to be successfully employed as a means of selectingfor positive BOI variants in adenovirus-mediated directed evolution, thetiming of antibiotic treatment and the swiftness with which translationis inhibited is key. The infection must progress sufficiently so thatthe BOI is expressed and able to induce expression of the antibioticresistance marker before translation is inhibited. However, theantibiotic must halt the infection before the nascent adenovirus isproduced. Therefore, there must be a window of time between induction ofantibiotic resistance and viral production for selection to besuccessful. The antibiotic also must be acutely toxic, so that theculture can be treated after the antibiotic resistance marker has had achance to be translated, and yet the antibiotic can still act before thenascent adenoviruses is produced. Ideally, the antibiotic would alsohave a large dynamic range of selection so that adenoviral replicationcan be both minimally inhibited at early passages when the BOI exhibitsonly moderate fitness, and maximally inhibited at later passages whenthe BOI exhibits greater fitness.

To test the acute toxicity of various antibiotics, a resazurin assay wasconducted on four common antibiotics used in mammalian tissue culture:hygromycin B, puromycin, blasticidin, and G418 (FIGS. 46A-46D). HEK293Acells were treated with various concentrations of each antibiotic fortwo days, and the resazurin fluorescence signal was analyzed. Whilepuromycin, hygromycin B, and blasticidin were completely toxic over thetwo-day treatment, G418 was only mildly toxic at the highestconcentrations. Puromycin exhibited the smallest dynamic range ofselection with inhibition of less than two orders of magnitude, whileblasticidin and hygromycin both exhibited over two orders of magnitudedynamic range of inhibitory concentrations.

The timing of antibiotic selection on adenoviral replication was nexttested. Wild-type AdPol-expressing cells were infected withRFPΔAdPol.adenovirus at MOI=1 and treated with various concentrations ofpuromycin or blasticidin either 5 h, 10 h, or 24 h post-infection (FIGS.47A-47B, TABLE 16). Two days post-infection, the adenovirus washarvested, and adenoviral titers were analyzed by flow cytometry. It wasfound that both puromycin and blasticidin were able to reduce adenoviralinfection at least 10,000-fold if the cultures were treated up to 10 hpost-infection. Neither puromycin nor blasticidin were able to inhibitadenoviral replication when treatment was initiated 24 h post-infection.The time period between 10 h and 24 h post-infection represents thelatest time period that we can treat cells following adenoviralinfection and still attain strong inhibition of adenoviral replication.In order to positively select for positive BOIs using antibioticselection, the antibiotic resistance marker must be expressed andfunctional within the 10-24 h window.

To test whether induced antibiotic resistance can allow adenovirus toescape acute antibiotic inhibition, new cell lines were constructed thatexpress an antibiotic resistance marker under control of tTA. Wild-typeAdPol expressing cells were stably transduced with lentivirus expressingeither blasticidin-S-deaminase (blastR) or puromycinN-acetyl-transferase (puroR) under control of the TRE3G promoter (termedTRE3G.blastR and TRE3G.puroR respectively) (TABLE 17). TRE3G.blastR,TRE3G.puroR, and wild type AdPol cell lines were infected withΔAdPol.adenovirus that either expressed tTA, or red fluorescent protein(RFP), and treated with either blasticidin (for iBlastR) or puromycin(for iPuroR) 10 h post-infection (FIGS. 48A-48D). As expected, bothpuromycin and blasticidin treatment inhibited both RFP-expressing andtTA-expressing ΔAdPol.adenovirus replication in the wild-type AdPol cellline, as no resistance marker could be expressed (FIGS. 48A-48B). It wasalso found that puromycin was equally toxic to both tTA-expressing andRFP-expressing ΔAdPol.adenovirus in the TRE3G.puroR cell line,indicating that either the cell line did not properly integrate theTRE3G.puroR cassette, or that puroR failed to rescue the adenovirusbefore puromycin inhibited translation (FIG. 48C). Interestingly, it wasfound that tTA.ΔAdPol.adenovirus was completely resistant to blasticidintreatment in the TRE3G.blastR cell line, while RFPA.AdPol.adenovirus wasstill inhibited (FIG. 48D). This result indicates that the combinationof tTA and TRE3G.blastR was able to rescue blasticidin-mediatedinhibition of adenovirus. Furthermore, this result indicated thatadenovirus encoding an active BOI could be rescued from antibioticselection, while adenovirus encoding an inactive BOI would be inhibited.

Whether inducible blasticidin resistance could enrich for adenoviruscontaining an active BOI over an adenovirus carrying an inactive BOI wasnext tested. The TRE3G.blastR cell line was simultaneously transfectedwith two ΔAdPol.adenoviruses (FIG. 49, TABLE 16, TABLE 17). The firstadenovirus encoded for tTA and mCherry while the second adenovirusencoded for only CFP. The two different fluorophores allow us to assessthe relative populations of the two adenoviruses by flow cytometry oninfected cells. The two adenoviruses were mixed at a ratio of 1:10tTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus: CFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus and were treatedwith blasticidin 10 h post-infection. Four days later, the infectionswere harvested, and the relative populations of thetTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus and CFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus were analyzed byflow cytometry. Interestingly, the CFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus was over1000-fold higher titer than the tTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus in theabsence of blasticidin. When 20 μM blasticidin was added, theCFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirus titer dropped over 100-fold, while thetTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus titer remained steady. While thetTA.mCherry.ΔAdPol.adenovirus did not increase in titer during theexperiment, it still enriched due to the drop in CFP.ΔAdPol.adenovirustiter. This experiment clearly demonstrates that one can use antibioticselection to enrich for adenoviruses encoding positive BOI variants.

Sequences:

WT-Pol-HA: HA tag is underlined (SEQ ID NO: 26)

atggccttggctcaagctcaccgggcccgtcgtcttcacgcagaggcgccagattcaggagatcaaccgccgcgtcgtcgcgttcgccagcaacctacgcgcgcagcaccagctcctgcccgcgcgcggcgccgacgtgcccctgccccctctcccggcgggtccggagccccccctacctccgggggctcgcccgcgtcaccgcttttagatgcatcatccaaggacacccccgcggcccaccgcccgccgcgcggtaccgtagtcgcgccgcggggatgcggcctcttgcaagccatcgacgccgccaccaaccagcccctggaaattaggtatcacctggatctagcccgcgccctgacccgtctatgcgaggtaaacctgcaggagctcccgcctgacctgacgccgcgggagctccagaccatggacagctcccatctgcgcgatgttgtcatcaagctccgaccgccgcgcgcggacatctggactttgggctcgcgcggcgtggtggtccgatccaccgtaactcccctcgagcagccagacggtcaaggacaagcagccgaagtagaagaccaccagccaaacccgccaggcgaggggctcaaattcccactctgcttccttgtgcgcggtcgtcaggtcaacctcgtgcaggatgtacagcccgtgcaccgctgccagtactgcgcacgtttttacaaaagccagcacgagtgttcggcccgtcgcagggacttctactttcaccacatcaatagccactcctccaattggtggcgggagatccagttcttcccgatcggctcgcatcctcgcaccgagcgtctctttgtcacctacgatgtagagacctatacttggatgggggcctttgggaagcagctcgtgcccttcatgctggtcatgaagttcggcggagatgagcctctagtgactgccgcgcgagacctagccgcgaaccttggatgggaccgctgggaacaagacccgcttaccttctactgcatcaccccagaaaaaatggccataggtcgccagtttaggacctttcgcgaccacctgcaaatgctaatggcccgtgacctgtggagctcattcgtcgcttccaaccctcatcttgcagactgggccctttcagagcacgggctcagctcccctgaagagctcacctacgaggaacttaaaaaattgccttccatcaagggcatcccgcgcttcttggaactttacattgtgggccacaacattaatgggtttgacgagatcgtgctcgccgcccaggtaattaacaaccgttccgaggtgccgggacccttccgcatcacacgcaactttatgcctcgcgcgggaaagatactcttcaacgatgtcaccttcgccctgccaaatccgcgttccaaaaagcgcacggactttttgctctgggagcagggcggatgcgacgacactgacttcaaataccagtacctcaaagtcatggtcagggacacctttgcgctcacccacacctcgctccggaaggccgcgcaggcatacgcgctacccgtagaaaagggatgctgcgcctaccaggccgtcaaccagttctacatgctaggctcttaccgttcggaggccgacgggtttccgatccaagagtactggaaagaccgcgaagagtttgtcctcaaccgcgagctgtggaaaaaaaagggacaggataagtatgacatcatcaaggaaaccctggactactgcgccctagacgtgcaggtcaccgccgagctggtcaacaagctgcgcgactcctacgcctccttcgtgcgtgacgcggtaggtctcacagacgccagcttcaacgtcttccagcgtccaaccatatcatccaactcacatgccatcttcaggcagatagtcttccgagcagagcagcccgcccgtagcaacctcggtcccgacctcctcgctccctcgcacgaactatacgattacgtgcgcgccagcatccgcggtggaagatgctaccctacatatcttggaatactcagagagcccctctacgtttacgacatttgcggcatgtacgcctccgcgctcacccaccccatgccatggggtcccccactcaacccatacgagcgcgcgcttgccgcccgcgcatggcagcaggcgctagacttgcaaggatgcaagatagactacttcgacgcgcgcctgctgcccggggtctttaccgtggacgcagaccccccggacgagacgcagctagaccccctaccgccattctgctcgcgcaagggcggccgcctctgctggaccaacgagcgcctacgcggagaggtagccaccagcgttgaccttgtcaccctgcacaaccgcggttggcgcgtgcacctggtgcccgacgagcgcaccaccgtctttcccgaatggcggtgcgttgcgcgcgaatacgtgcagctaaacatcgcggccaaggagcgcgccgatcgcgacaaaaaccaaaccctgcgctccatcgccaagttgctgtccaacgccctctacgggtcgtttgccaccaagcttgacaacaaaaagattgtcttttctgaccagatggatgcggccaccctcaaaggcatcaccgcgggccaggtgaatatcaaatcctcctcgtttttggaaactgacaatcttagcgcagaagtcatgcccgcttttcagagggagtactcaccccaacagctggccctcgcagacagcgatgcggaagagagtgaggacgaacgcgcccccacccccttttatagccccccttcaggaacacccggtcacgtggcctacacctacaaaccaatcaccttccttgatgccgaagagggcgacatgtgtcttcacaccctggagcgagtggaccccctagtggacaacgaccgctacccctcccacttagcctccttcgtgctggcctggacgcgagcctttgtctcagagtggtccgagtttctatacgaggaggaccgcggaacaccgctcgaggacaggcctctcaagtctgtatacggggacacggacagccttttcgtcaccgagcgtggacaccggctcatggaaaccagaggtaagaaacgcatcaaaaagcatgggggaaacctggtttttgaccccgaacggccagagctcacctggctcgtggaatgcgagaccgtctgcggggcctgcggcgcggatgcctactccccggaatcggtatttctcgcgcccaagctctacgccctcaaaagtctgcactgcccctcgtgcggcgcctcctccaagggcaagctgcgcgccaagggccacgccgcggaggggctggactatgacaccatggtcaaatgctacctggccgacgcgcagggcgaagaccggcagcgcttcagcaccagcaggaccagcctcaagcgcaccctggccagcgcgcagcccggagcgcaccccttcaccgtgacccagactacgctgacgaggaccctgcgcccgtggaaagacatgaccctggcccgtctggacgagcaccgactactgccgtacagcgaaagccgccccaacccgcgaaacgaggagatatgctggatcgagatgccgtacccatacgatgttccggattacgcttag

EP-Pol-HA: Mutated codons and HA tag are underlined (SEQ ID NO: 27)

atggccttggctcaagctcaccgggcccgtcgtcttcacgcagaggcgccagattcaggagatcaaccgccgcgtcgtcgcgttcgccagcaacctacgcgcgcagcaccagctcctgcccgcgcgcggcgccgacgtgcccctgccccctctcccggcgggtccggagccccccctacctccgggggctcgcccgcgtcaccgcttttagatgcatcatccaaggacacccccgcggcccaccgcccgccgcgcggtaccgtagtcgcgccgcggggatgcggcctcttgcaagccatcgacgccgccaccaaccagcccctggaaattaggtatcacctggatctagcccgcgccctgacccgtctatgcgaggtaaacctgcaggagctcccgcctgacctgacgccgcgggagctccagaccatggacagctcccatctgcgcgatgttgtcatcaagctccgaccgccgcgcgcggacatctggactttgggctcgcgcggcgtggtggtccgatccaccgtaactcccctcgagcagccagacggtcaaggacaagcagccgaagtagaagaccaccagccaaacccgccaggcgaggggctcaaattcccactctgcttccttgtgcgcggtcgtcaggtcaacctcgtgcaggatgtacagcccgtgcaccgctgccagtactgcgcacgtttttacaaaagccagcacgagtgttcggcccgtcgcagggacttctactttcaccacatcaatagccactcctccaattggtggcgggagatccagttcttcccgatcggctcgcatcctcgcaccgagcgtctctttgtcacctacgatgtagagacctatacttggatgggggcctttgggaagcagctcgtgcccttcatgctggtcatgaagttcggcggagatgagcctctagtgactgccgcgcgagacctagccgcgaaccttggatgggaccgctgggaacaagacccgcttaccttctactgcatcaccccagaaaaaatggccataggtcgccagtttaggacctttcgcgaccacctgcaaatgctaatggcccgtgacctgtggagctcattcgtcgcttccaaccctcatcttgcagactgggccctttcagagcacgggctcagctcccctgaagagctcacctacgaggaacttaaaaaattgccttccatcaagggcatcccgcgcttcttggaactttacattgtgggccacaacattaatgggtacgacgagatcgtgctcgccgcccaggtaattaacaaccgttccgaggtgccgggacccttccgcatcacacgcaactttatgcctcgcgcgggaaagatactcttcaacgatgtcaccttcgccctgccaaatccgcgttccaaaaagcgcacggactttttgctctgggagcagggcggatgcgacgacactgacttcaaataccagtacctcaaagtcatggtcagggacacctttgcgctcacccacacctcgctccggaaggccgcgcaggcatacgcgctacccgtagaaaagggatgctgcgcctaccaggccgtcaaccagttctacatgctaggctcttaccgttcggaggccgacgggtttccgatccaagagtactggaaagaccgcgaagagtttgtcctcaaccgcgagctgtggaaaaaaaagggacaggataagtatgacatcatcaaggaaaccctggactactgcgccctagacgtgcaggtcaccgccgagctggtcaacaagctgcgcgactcctacgcctccttcgtgcgtgacgcggtaggtctcacagacgccagcttcaacgtcttccagcgtccaaccatatcatccaactcacatgccatcttcaggcagatagtcttccgagcagagcagcccgcccgtagcaacctcggtcccgacctcctcgctccctcgcacgaactatacgattacgtgcgcgccagcatccgcggtggaagatgctaccctacatatcttggaatactcagagagcccctctacgtttacgacatttgcggcatgtacgcctccgcgctcacccaccccatgccatggggtcccccactcaacccatacgagcgcgcgcttgccgcccgcgcatggcagcaggcgctagacttgcaaggatgcaagatagactacttcgacgcgcgcctgctgcccggggtctttaccgtggacgcagaccccccggacgagacgcagctagaccccctaccgccattctgctcgcgcaagggcggccgcctctgctggaccaacgagcgcctacgcggagaggtagccaccagcgttgaccttgtcaccctgcacaaccgcggttggcgcgtgcacctggtgcccgacgagcgcaccaccgtctttcccgaatggcggtgcgttgcgcgcgaatacgtgcagctaaacatcgcggccaaggagcgcgccgatcgctaagaaccaaaccctgcgctccatcgccaagttgctgtccaacgccctctacgggtcgtttgccaccaagcttgacaacaaaaagattgtcttttctgaccagatggatgcggccaccctcaaaggcatcaccgcgggccaggtgaatatcaaatcctcctcgtttttggaaactgacaatcttagcgcagaagtcatgcccgcttttcagagggagtactcaccccaacagctggccctcgcagacagcgatgcggaagagagtgaggacgaacgcgcccccacccccttttatagccccccttcaggaacacccggtcacgtggcctacacctacaaaccaatcaccttccttgatgccgaagagggcgacatgtgtcttcacaccctggagcgagtggaccccctagtggacaacgaccgctacccctcccacttagcctccttcgtgctggcctggacgcgagcctttgtctcagagtggtccgagtttctatacgaggaggaccgcggaacaccgctcgaggacaggcctctcaagtctgtatacggggacacggacagccttttcgtcaccgagcgtggacaccggctcatggaaaccagaggtaagaaacgcatcaaaaagcatgggggaaacctggtttttgaccccgaacggccagagctcacctggctcgtggaatgcgagaccgtctgcggggcctgcggcgcggatgcctactccccggaatcggtatttctcgcgcccaagctctacgccctcaaaagtctgcactgcccctcgtgcggcgcctcctccaagggcaagctgcgcgccaagggccacgccgcggaggggctggactatgacaccatggtcaaatgctacctggccgacgcgcagggcgaagaccggcagcgcttcagcaccagcaggaccagcctcaagcgcaccctggccagcgcgcagcccggagcgcaccccttcaccgtgacccagactacgctgacgaggaccctgcgcccgtggaaagacatgaccctggcccgtctggacgagcaccgactactgccgtacagcgaaagccgccccaacccgcgaaacgaggagatatgctggatcgagatgccgtacccatacgatgttccggattacgcttag

TPL.Prot: Tripartite leader is underlined (SEQ ID NO: 28)

actctcttccgcatcgctgtctgcgagggccagctgttgggctcgcggttgaggacaaactcttcgcggtctttccagtactcttggatcggaaacccgtcggcctccgaacaggtactccgccgccgagggacctgagcgagtccgcatcgaccggatcggaaaacctctcgagaaaggcgtctaaccagtcacagtcgcaatgggctccagtgagcaggaactgaaagccattgtcaaagatcttggttgtgggccatattttttgggcacctatgacaagcgctttccaggctttgtttctccacacaagctcgcctgcgccatagtcaatacggccggtcgcgagactgggggcgtacactggatggcctttgcctggaacccgcactcaaaaacatgctacctctttgagccattggcttttctgaccagcgactcaagcaggtttaccagtttgagtacgagtcactcctgcgccgtagcgccattgcttcttcccccgaccgctgtataacgctggaaaagtccacccaaagcgtacaggggcccaactcggccgcctgtggactattctgctgcatgtttctccacgcctttgccaactggccccaaactcccatggatcacaaccccaccatgaaccttattaccggggtacccaactccatgctcaacagtccccaggtacagcccaccctgcgtcgcaaccaggaacagctctacagcttcctggagcgccactcgccctacttccgcagccacagtgcgcagattaggagcgccacttctttttgtcacttgaaaaacatgtaa

Full Vectors:

R6K-KCS Selectable/Counterselectable Cassette Template Plasmid (ccdBRecombineering Selection) (SEQ ID NO: 29):

This vector was used as a template for generating the counterselectablemarker for recombineering by PCR.

CCTCCCACACATAACCAGGAGGTCAGATTatgcagtttaaggtttacacctataaaagagagagccgttatcgtctgtttgtggatgtacagagtgatattattgacacgcccgggcgacggatggtgatccccctggccagtgcacgtctgctgtcagataaagtctcccgtgaactttacccggtggtgcatatcggggatgaaagctggcgcatgatgaccaccgatatggccagtgtgccggtctccgttatcggggaagaagtggctgatctcagccaccgcgaaaatgacatcaaaaacgccattaacctgatgttctggggaatataacccagAAGCTTagcaaaagctaaaaccaggagctatttaatggcaacagttaaccagctggtacgcaaaccacgtgctcgcaaagttgcgaaaagcaacgtgcctgcgctggaagcatgcccgcaaaaacgtggcgtatgtactcgtgtatatactaccactcctaaaaaaccgaactccgcgctgcgtaaagtatgccgtgttcgtctgactaacggtttcgaagtgacttcctacatcggtggtgaaggtcacaacctgcaggagcactccgtgatcctgatccgtggcggtcgtgttaaagacctcccgggtgttcgttaccacaccgtacgtggtgcgcttgactgctccggcgttaaagaccgtaagcaggctcgttccaagtatggcgtgaagcgtcctaaggcttaatggttcgcccgcctaatgagcgggcttttttttGAATTCTTTTTTAATTCgatctgaagatcagcagttcaacctgttgatagtacgtactaagctctcatgtttcacgtactaagctctcatgtttaacgtactaagctctcatgtttaacgaactaaaccctcatggctaacgtactaagctctcatggctaacgtactaagctctcatgtttcacgtactaagctctcatgtttgaacaataaaattaatataaatcagcaacttaaatagcctctaaggttttaagttttataagaaaaaaaagaatatataaggcttttaaagcttttaaggtttaacggttgtggacaacaagccagggatgtaacgcactgagaagcccttagagcctctcaaagcaattttgagtgacacaggaacacttaacggctgacatgGGATCCccctcatcagtgccaacatagtaagcCAGTATACACTCCGCTAGCgcggccgcCTCGAGTTTCGACCTGCAGCCTGTTGACAATTAATCATCGGCATAGTATATCGGCATAGTATAATACGACAAGGTGAGGAACTAAACCATGGGATCGGCCATTGAACAAGATGGATTGCACGCAGGTTCTCCGGCCGCTTGGGTGGAGAGGCTATTCGGCTATGACTGGGCACAACAGACAATCGGCTGCTCTGATGCCGCCGTGTTCCGGCTGTCAGCGCAGGGGCGCCCGGTTCTTTTTGTCAAGACCGACCTGTCCGGTGCCCTGAATGAACTGCAGGACGAGGCAGCGCGGCTATCGTGGCTGGCCACGACGGGCGTTCCTTGCGCAGCTGTGCTCGACGTTGTCACTGAAGCGGGAAGGGACTGGCTGCTATTGGGCGAAGTGCCGGGGCAGGATCTCCTGTCATCTCACCTTGCTCCTGCCGAGAAAGTATCCATCATGGCTGATGCAATGCGGCGGCTGCATACGCTTGATCCGGCTACCTGCCCATTCGACCACCAAGCGAAACATCGCATCGAGCGAGCACGTACTCGGATGGAAGCCGGTCTTGTCGATCAGGATGATCTGGACGAAGAGCATCAGGGGCTCGCGCCAGCCGAACTGTTCGCCAGGCTCAAGGCGCGCATGCCCGACGGCGATGATCTCGTCGTGACCCATGGCGATGCCTGCTTGCCGAATATCATGGTGGAAAATGGCCGCTTTTCTGGATTCATCGACTGTGGCCGGCTGGGTGTGGCGGACCGCTATCAGGACATAGCGTTGGCTACCCGTGATATTGCTGAAGAGCTTGGCGGCGAATGGGCTGACCGCTTCCTCGTGCTTTACGGTATCGCCGCTCCCGATTCGCAGCGCATCGCCTTCTATCGCCTTCTTGACGAGTTCTTCTGAGGGGATCAATTCTCTAGAGCTCGCTGATCAGCCTCGACtgtaccGTTAGC

pcDNA3.1 TTA Template Plasmid (SEQ ID NO: 30):

This plasmid served as a template for various tet-transactivatorconstruct designs in order to recombineer them into the adenoviralvectors.

GACGGATCGGGAGATCTCCCGATCCCCTATGGTGCACTCTCAGTACAATCTGCTCTGATGCCGCATAGTTAAGCCAGTATCTGCTCCCTGCTTGTGTGTTGGAGGTCGCTGAGTAGTGCGCGAGCAAAATTTAAGCTACAACAAGGCAAGGCTTGACCGACAATTGCATGAAGAATCTGCTTAGGGTTAGGCGTTTTGCGCTGCTTCGCGATGTACGGGCCAGATATACGCGTTGACATTGATTATTGACTAGTTATTAATAGTAATCAATTACGGGGTCATTAGTTCATAGCCCATATATGGAGTTCCGCGTTACATAACTTACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCTGACCGCCCAACGACCCCCGCCCATTGACGTCAATAATGACGTATGTTCCCATAGTAACGCCAATAGGGACTTTCCATTGACGTCAATGGGTGGAGTATTTACGGTAAACTGCCCACTTGGCAGTACATCAAGTGTATCATATGCCAAGTACGCCCCCTATTGACGTCAATGACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCATTATGCCCAGTACATGACCTTATGGGACTTTCCTACTTGGCAGTACATCTACGTATTAGTCATCGCTATTACCATGGTGATGCGGTTTTGGCAGTACATCAATGGGCGTGGATAGCGGTTTGACTCACGGGGATTTCCAAGTCTCCACCCCATTGACGTCAATGGGAGTTTGTTTTGGCACCAAAATCAACGGGACTTTCCAAAATGTCGTAACAACTCCGCCCCATTGACGCAAATGGGCGGTAGGCGTGTACGGTGGGAGGTCTATATAAGCAGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGAGAACCCACTGCTTACTGGCTTATCGAAATTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGAGACCCAAGCTGGCTAGCGTTTAAACTTAAGCTTGGTACcCCTCCGCGGGGATCCTCTAGTCAGCTGACGCGTCCTATGTCTAGACTGGACAAGAGCAAAGTCATAAACTCTGCTCTGGAATTACTCAATGAAGTCGGTATCGAAGGCCTGACGACAAGGAAACTCGCTCAAAAGCTGGGAGTTGAGCAGCCTACCCTGTACTGGCACGTGAAGAACAAGCGGGCCCTGCTCGATGCCCTGGCAATCGAGATGCTGGACAGGCATCATACCCACTTCTGCCCCCTGGAAGGCGAGTCATGGCAAGACTTTCTGCGGAACAACGCCAAGTCATTCCGCTGTGCTCTCCTCTCACATCGCGACGGGGCTAAAGTGCATCTCGGCACCCGCCCAACAGAGAAACAGTACGAAACCCTGGAAAATCAGCTCGCGTTCCTGTGTCAGCAAGGCTTCTCCCTGGAGAACGCACTGTACGCTCTGTCCGCCGTGGGCCACTTTACACTGGGCTGCGTATTGGAGGATCAGGAGCATCAAGTAGCAAAAGAGGAAAGAGAGACACCTACCACCGATTCTATGCCCCCACTTCTGAGACAAGCAATTGAGCTGTTCGACCATCAGGGAGCCGAACCTGCCTTCCTTTTCGGCCTGGAACTAATCATATGTGGCCTGGAGAAACAGCTAAAGTGCGAAAGCGGCGGGCCGGCCGACGCCCTTGACGATTTTGACTTAGACATGCTCCCAGCCGATGCCCTTGACGACTTTGACCTTGATATGCTGCCTGCTGACGCTCTTGACGATTTGGACCTTGACATGCTCCCCGGGTAACTAGAATTATCTCTAGAGGATCATAATCAGCCATACCACATTTGTTCgcggccgcCGGCAATAAAAAGACAGAATAAAACGCACGGGTGTTGGGTCGTTTGTTCGAATTCTAGCAGGCATGCTGGGGATGCGGTGGGCTCTATGGCTTCTGAGGCGGAAAGAACCAGCTGGGGCTCTAGGGGGTATCCCCACGCGCCCTGTAGCGGCGCATTAAGCGCGGCGGGTGTGGTGGTTACGCGCAGCGTGACCGCTACACTTGCCAGCGCCCTAGCGCCCGCTCCTTTCGCTTTCTTCCCTTCCTTTCTCGCCACGTTCGCCGGCTTTCCCCGTCAAGCTCTAAATCGGGGGCTCCCTTTAGGGTTCCGATTTAGTGCTTTACGGCACCTCGACCCCAAAAAACTTGATTAGGGTGATGGTTCACGTAGTGGGCCATCGCCCTGATAGACGGTTTTTCGCCCTTTGACGTTGGAGTCCACGTTCTTTAATAGTGGACTCTTGTTCCAAACTGGAACAACACTCAACCCTATCTCGGTCTATTCTTTTGATTTATAAGGGATTTTGCCGATTTCGGCCTATTGGTTAAAAAATGAGCTGATTTAACAAAAATTTAACGCGAATTAATTCTGTGGAATGTGTGTCAGTTAGGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCAGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCATAGTCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCATCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCAGTTCCGCCCATTCTCCGCCCCATGGCTGACTAATTTTTTTTATTTATGCAGAGGCCGAGGCCGCCTCTGCCTCTGAGCTATTCCAGAAGTAGTGAGGAGGCTTTTTTGGAGGCCTAGGCTTTTGCAAACCTCCGCGGGGATCCTCTAGTCAGCTGACGCGTCCTATGTCTAGACTGGACAAGAGCAAAGTCATAAACTCTGCTCTGGAATTACTCAATGAAGTCGGTATCGAAGGCCTGACGACAAGGAAACTCGCTCAAAAGCTGGGAGTTGAGCAGCCTACCCTGTACTGGCACGTGAAGAACAAGCGGGCCCTGCTCGATGCCCTGGCAATCGAGATGCTGGACAGGCATCATACCCACTTCTGCCCCCTGGAAGGCGAGTCATGGCAAGACTTTCTGCGGAACAACGCCAAGTCATTCCGCTGTGCTCTCCTCTCACATCGCGACGGGGCTAAAGTGCATCTCGGCACCCGCCCAACAGAGAAACAGTACGAAACCCTGGAAAATCAGCTCGCGTTCCTGTGTCAGCAAGGCTTCTCCCTGGAGAACGCACTGTACGCTCTGTCCGCCGTGGGCCACTTTACACTGGGCTGCGTATTGGAGGATCAGGAGCATCAAGTAGCAAAAGAGGAAAGAGAGACACCTACCACCGATTCTATGCCCCCACTTCTGAGACAAGCAATTGAGCTGTTCGACCATCAGGGAGCCGAACCTGCCTTCCTTTTCGGCCTGGAACTAATCATATGTGGCCTGGAGAAACAGCTAAAGTGCGAAAGCGGCGGGCCGGCCGACGCCCTTGACGATTTTGACTTAGACATGCTCCCAGCCGATGCCCTTGACGACTTTGACCTTGATATGCTGCCTGCTGACGCTCTTGACGATTTGGACCTTGACATGCTCCCCGGGTAACTAGAATTATCTCTAGAGGATCATAATCAGCCATACCACATTTGTTCGAAATGACCGACCAAGCGACGCCCAACCTGCCATCACGAGATTTCGATTCCACCGCCGCCTTCTATGAAAGGTTGGGCTTCGGAATCGTTTTCCGGGACGCCGGCTGGATGATCCTCCAGCGCGGGGATCTCATGCTGGAGTTCTTCGCCCACCCCAACTTGTTTATTGCAGCTTATAATGGTTACAAATAAAGCAATAGCATCACAAATTTCACAAATAAAGCATTTTTTTCACTGCATTCTAGTTGTGGTTTGTCCAAACTCATCAATGTATCTTATCATGTCTGTATACCGTCGACCTCTAGCTAGAGCTTGGCGTAATCATGGTCATAGCTGTTTCCTGTGTGAAATTGTTATCCGCTCACAATTCCACACAACATACGAGCCGGAAGCATAAAGTGTAAAGCCTGGGGTGCCTAATGAGTGAGCTAACTCACATTAATTGCGTTGCGCTCACTGCCCGCTTTCCAGTCGGGAAACCTGTCGTGCCAGCTGCATTAATGAATCGGCCAACGCGCGGGGAGAGGCGGTTTGCGTATTGGGCGCTCTTCCGCTTCCTCGCTCACTGACTCGCTGCGCTCGGTCGTTCGGCTGCGGCGAGCGGTATCAGCTCACTCAAAGGCGGTAATACGGTTATCCACAGAATCAGGGGATAACGCAGGAAAGAACATGTGAGCAAAAGGCCAGCAAAAGGCCAGGAACCGTAAAAAGGCCGCGTTGCTGGCGTTTTTCCATAGGCTCCGCCCCCCTGACGAGCATCACAAAAATCGACGCTCAAGTCAGAGGTGGCGAAACCCGACAGGACTATAAAGATACCAGGCGTTTCCCCCTGGAAGCTCCCTCGTGCGCTCTCCTGTTCCGACCCTGCCGCTTACCGGATACCTGTCCGCCTTTCTCCCTTCGGGAAGCGTGGCGCTTTCTCATAGCTCACGCTGTAGGTATCTCAGTTCGGTGTAGGTCGTTCGCTCCAAGCTGGGCTGTGTGCACGAACCCCCCGTTCAGCCCGACCGCTGCGCCTTATCCGGTAACTATCGTCTTGAGTCCAACCCGGTAAGACACGACTTATCGCCACTGGCAGCAGCCACTGGTAACAGGATTAGCAGAGCGAGGTATGTAGGCGGTGCTACAGAGTTCTTGAAGTGGTGGCCTAACTACGGCTACACTAGAAGAACAGTATTTGGTATCTGCGCTCTGCTGAAGCCAGTTACCTTCGGAAAAAGAGTTGGTAGCTCTTGATCCGGCAAACAAACCACCGCTGGTAGCGGTTTTTTTGTTTGCAAGCAGCAGATTACGCGCAGAAAAAAAGGATCTCAAGAAGATCCTTTGATCTTTTCTACGGGGTCTGACGCTCAGTGGAACGAAAACTCACGTTAAGGGATTTTGGTCATGAGATTATCAAAAAGGATCTTCACCTAGATCCTTTTAAATTAAAAATGAAGTTTTAAATCAATCTAAAGTATATATGAGTAAACTTGGTCTGACAGTTACCAATGCTTAATCAGTGAGGCACCTATCTCAGCGATCTGTCTATTTCGTTCATCCATAGTTGCCTGACTCCCCGTCGTGTAGATAACTACGATACGGGAGGGCTTACCATCTGGCCCCAGTGCTGCAATGATACCGCGAGACCCACGCTCACCGGCTCCAGATTTATCAGCAATAAACCAGCCAGCCGGAAGGGCCGAGCGCAGAAGTGGTCCTGCAACTTTATCCGCCTCCATCCAGTCTATTAATTGTTGCCGGGAAGCTAGAGTAAGTAGTTCGCCAGTTAATAGTTTGCGCAACGTTGTTGCCATTGCTACAGGCATCGTGGTGTCACGCTCGTCGTTTGGTATGGCTTCATTCAGCTCCGGTTCCCAACGATCAAGGCGAGTTACATGATCCCCCATGTTGTGCAAAAAAGCGGTTAGCTCCTTCGGTCCTCCGATCGTTGTCAGAAGTAAGTTGGCCGCAGTGTTATCACTCATGGTTATGGCAGCACTGCATAATTCTCTTACTGTCATGCCATCCGTAAGATGCTTTTCTGTGACTGGTGAGTACTCAACCAAGTCATTCTGAGAATAGTGTATGCGGCGACCGAGTTGCTCTTGCCCGGCGTCAATACGGGATAATACCGCGCCACATAGCAGAACTTTAAAAGTGCTCATCATTGGAAAACGTTCTTCGGGGCGAAAACTCTCAAGGATCTTACCGCTGTTGAGATCCAGTTCGATGTAACCCACTCGTGCACCCAACTGATCTTCAGCATCTTTTACTTTCACCAGCGTTTCTGGGTGAGCAAAAACAGGAAGGCAAAATGCCGCAAAAAAGGGAATAAGGGCGACACGGAAATGTTGAATACTCATACTCTTCCTTTTTCAATATTATTGAAGCATTTATCAGGGTTATTGTCTCATGAGCGGATACATATTTGAATGTATTTAGAAAAATAAACAAATAGGGGTTCCGCGCACATTTCCCCGAAAAGTGCCACCTGACGTC

pcDNA3.1 mCherry Template Plasmid (SEQ ID NO: 31):

This vector served as a template to amplify various mCherry constructdesigns for recombineering into the adenoviral constructs.

GACGGATCGGGAGATCTCCCGATCCCCTATGGTGCACTCTCAGTACAATCTGCTCTGATGCCGCATAGTTAAGCCAGTATCTGCTCCCTGCTTGTGTGTTGGAGGTCGCTGAGTAGTGCGCGAGCAAAATTTAAGCTACAACAAGGCAAGGCTTGACCGACAATTGCATGAAGAATCTGCTTAGGGTTAGGCGTTTTGCGCTGCTTCGCGATGTACGGGCCAGATATACGCGTTGACATTGATTATTGACTAGTTATTAATAGTAATCAATTACGGGGTCATTAGTTCATAGCCCATATATGGAGTTCCGCGTTACATAACTTACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCTGACCGCCCAACGACCCCCGCCCATTGACGTCAATAATGACGTATGTTCCCATAGTAACGCCAATAGGGACTTTCCATTGACGTCAATGGGTGGAGTATTTACGGTAAACTGCCCACTTGGCAGTACATCAAGTGTATCATATGCCAAGTACGCCCCCTATTGACGTCAATGACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCATTATGCCCAGTACATGACCTTATGGGACTTTCCTACTTGGCAGTACATCTACGTATTAGTCATCGCTATTACCATGGTGATGCGGTTTTGGCAGTACATCAATGGGCGTGGATAGCGGTTTGACTCACGGGGATTTCCAAGTCTCCACCCCATTGACGTCAATGGGAGTTTGTTTTGGCACCAAAATCAACGGGACTTTCCAAAATGTCGTAACAACTCCGCCCCATTGACGCAAATGGGCGGTAGGCGTGTACGGTGGGAGGTCTATATAAGCAGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGAGAACCCACTGCTTACTGGCTTATCGAAATTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGAGACCCAAGCTGGCTAGCGTTTAAACTTAAGCTTGGTACCgcaccatggtgagcaagggcgaggaggataacatggccatcatcaaggagttcatgcgcttcaaggtgcacatggagggctccgtgaacggccacgagttcgagatcgagggcgagggcgagggccgcccctacgagggcacccagaccgccaagctgaaggtgaccaagggtggccccctgcccttcgcctgggacatcctgtcccctcagttcatgtacggctccaaggcctacgtgaagcaccccgccgacatccccgactacttgaagctgtccttccccgagggcttcaagtgggagcgcgtgatgaacttcgaggacggcggcgtggtgaccgtgacccaggactcctccctgcaggacggcgagttcatctacaaggtgaagctgcgcggcaccaacttcccctccgacggccccgtaatgcagaagaagaccatgggctgggaggcctcctccgagcggatgtaccccgaggacggcgccctgaagggcgagatcaagcagaggctgaagctgaaggacggcggccactacgacgctgaggtcaagaccacctacaaggccaagaagcccgtgcagctgcccggcgcctacaacgtcaacatcaagttggacatcacctcccacaacgaggactacaccatcgtggaacagtacgaacgcgccgagggccgccactccaccggcggCATGGACGAGCTGTACAAGTAGGCGGCCGCATCGATAAGCTTGTCGACGATATCTCTAGAGGGCCCGTTTAAACCCGCTGATCAGCCTCGACTGTGCCTTCTAGTTGCCAGCCATCTGTTGTTTGCCCCTCCCCCGTGCCTTCCTTGACCCTGGAAGGTGCCACTCCCACTGTCCTTTCCTAATAAAATGAGGAAATTGCATCGCATTGTCTGAGTAGGTGTCATTCTATTCTGGGGGGTGGGGTGGGGCAGGACAGCAAGGGGGAGGATTGGGAAGACAATAGCAGGCATGCTGGGGATGCGGTGGGCTCTATGGCTTCTGAGGCGGAAAGAACCAGCTGGGGCTCTAGGGGGTATCCCCACGCGCCCTGTAGCGGCGCATTAAGCGCGGCGGGTGTGGTGGTTACGCGCAGCGTGACCGCTACACTTGCCAGCGCCCTAGCGCCCGCTCCTTTCGCTTTCTTCCCTTCCTTTCTCGCCACGTTCGCCGGCTTTCCCCGTCAAGCTCTAAATCGGGGGCTCCCTTTAGGGTTCCGATTTAGTGCTTTACGGCACCTCGACCCCAAAAAACTTGATTAGGGTGATGGTTCACGTAGTGGGCCATCGCCCTGATAGACGGTTTTTCGCCCTTTGACGTTGGAGTCCACGTTCTTTAATAGTGGACTCTTGTTCCAAACTGGAACAACACTCAACCCTATCTCGGTCTATTCTTTTGATTTATAAGGGATTTTGCCGATTTCGGCCTATTGGTTAAAAAATGAGCTGATTTAACAAAAATTTAACGCGAATTAATTCTGTGGAATGTGTGTCAGTTAGGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCAGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCATAGTCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCATCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCAGTTCCGCCCATTCTCCGCCCCATGGCTGACTAATTTTTTTTATTTATGCAGAGGCCGAGGCCGCCTCTGCCTCTGAGCTATTCCAGAAGTAGTGAGGAGGCTTTTTTGGAGGCCTAGGCTTTTGCAAACCTCCGCGGGGATCCgcaccatggtgagcaagggcgaggaggataacatggccatcatcaaggagttcatgcgcttcaaggtgcacatggagggctccgtgaacggccacgagttcgagatcgagggcgagggcgagggccgcccctacgagggcacccagaccgccaagctgaaggtgaccaagggtggccccctgcccttcgcctgggacatcctgtcccctcagttcatgtacggctccaaggcctacgtgaagcaccccgccgacatccccgactacttgaagctgtccttccccgagggcttcaagtgggagcgcgtgatgaacttcgaggacggcggcgtggtgaccgtgacccaggactcctccctgcaggacggcgagttcatctacaaggtgaagctgcgcggcaccaacttcccctccgacggccccgtaatgcagaagaagaccatgggctgggaggcctcctccgagcggatgtaccccgaggacggcgccctgaagggcgagatcaagcagaggctgaagctgaaggacggcggccactacgacgctgaggtcaagaccacctacaaggccaagaagcccgtgcagctgcccggcgcctacaacgtcaacatcaagttggacatcacctcccacaacgaggactacaccatcgtggaacagtacgaacgcgccgagggccgccactccaccggcggCATGGACGAGCTGTACAAGTAGTTCGAAATGACCGACCAAGCGACGCCCAACCTGCCATCACGAGATTTCGATTCCACCGCCGCCTTCTATGAAAGGTTGGGCTTCGGAATCGTTTTCCGGGACGCCGGCTGGATGATCCTCCAGCGCGGGGATCTCATGCTGGAGTTCTTCGCCCACCCCAACTTGTTTATTGCAGCTTATAATGGTTACAAATAAAGCAATAGCATCACAAATTTCACAAATAAAGCATTTTTTTCACTGCATTCTAGTTGTGGTTTGTCCAAACTCATCAATGTATCTTATCATGTCTGTATACCGTCGACCTCTAGCTAGAGCTTGGCGTAATCATGGTCATAGCTGTTTCCTGTGTGAAATTGTTATCCGCTCACAATTCCACACAACATACGAGCCGGAAGCATAAAGTGTAAAGCCTGGGGTGCCTAATGAGTGAGCTAACTCACATTAATTGCGTTGCGCTCACTGCCCGCTTTCCAGTCGGGAAACCTGTCGTGCCAGCTGCATTAATGAATCGGCCAACGCGCGGGGAGAGGCGGTTTGCGTATTGGGCGCTCTTCCGCTTCCTCGCTCACTGACTCGCTGCGCTCGGTCGTTCGGCTGCGGCGAGCGGTATCAGCTCACTCAAAGGCGGTAATACGGTTATCCACAGAATCAGGGGATAACGCAGGAAAGAACATGTGAGCAAAAGGCCAGCAAAAGGCCAGGAACCGTAAAAAGGCCGCGTTGCTGGCGTTTTTCCATAGGCTCCGCCCCCCTGACGAGCATCACAAAAATCGACGCTCAAGTCAGAGGTGGCGAAACCCGACAGGACTATAAAGATACCAGGCGTTTCCCCCTGGAAGCTCCCTCGTGCGCTCTCCTGTTCCGACCCTGCCGCTTACCGGATACCTGTCCGCCTTTCTCCCTTCGGGAAGCGTGGCGCTTTCTCATAGCTCACGCTGTAGGTATCTCAGTTCGGTGTAGGTCGTTCGCTCCAAGCTGGGCTGTGTGCACGAACCCCCCGTTCAGCCCGACCGCTGCGCCTTATCCGGTAACTATCGTCTTGAGTCCAACCCGGTAAGACACGACTTATCGCCACTGGCAGCAGCCACTGGTAACAGGATTAGCAGAGCGAGGTATGTAGGCGGTGCTACAGAGTTCTTGAAGTGGTGGCCTAACTACGGCTACACTAGAAGAACAGTATTTGGTATCTGCGCTCTGCTGAAGCCAGTTACCTTCGGAAAAAGAGTTGGTAGCTCTTGATCCGGCAAACAAACCACCGCTGGTAGCGGTTTTTTTGTTTGCAAGCAGCAGATTACGCGCAGAAAAAAAGGATCTCAAGAAGATCCTTTGATCTTTTCTACGGGGTCTGACGCTCAGTGGAACGAAAACTCACGTTAAGGGATTTTGGTCATGAGATTATCAAAAAGGATCTTCACCTAGATCCTTTTAAATTAAAAATGAAGTTTTAAATCAATCTAAAGTATATATGAGTAAACTTGGTCTGACAGTTACCAATGCTTAATCAGTGAGGCACCTATCTCAGCGATCTGTCTATTTCGTTCATCCATAGTTGCCTGACTCCCCGTCGTGTAGATAACTACGATACGGGAGGGCTTACCATCTGGCCCCAGTGCTGCAATGATACCGCGAGACCCACGCTCACCGGCTCCAGATTTATCAGCAATAAACCAGCCAGCCGGAAGGGCCGAGCGCAGAAGTGGTCCTGCAACTTTATCCGCCTCCATCCAGTCTATTAATTGTTGCCGGGAAGCTAGAGTAAGTAGTTCGCCAGTTAATAGTTTGCGCAACGTTGTTGCCATTGCTACAGGCATCGTGGTGTCACGCTCGTCGTTTGGTATGGCTTCATTCAGCTCCGGTTCCCAACGATCAAGGCGAGTTACATGATCCCCCATGTTGTGCAAAAAAGCGGTTAGCTCCTTCGGTCCTCCGATCGTTGTCAGAAGTAAGTTGGCCGCAGTGTTATCACTCATGGTTATGGCAGCACTGCATAATTCTCTTACTGTCATGCCATCCGTAAGATGCTTTTCTGTGACTGGTGAGTACTCAACCAAGTCATTCTGAGAATAGTGTATGCGGCGACCGAGTTGCTCTTGCCCGGCGTCAATACGGGATAATACCGCGCCACATAGCAGAACTTTAAAAGTGCTCATCATTGGAAAACGTTCTTCGGGGCGAAAACTCTCAAGGATCTTACCGCTGTTGAGATCCAGTTCGATGTAACCCACTCGTGCACCCAACTGATCTTCAGCATCTTTTACTTTCACCAGCGTTTCTGGGTGAGCAAAAACAGGAAGGCAAAATGCCGCAAAAAAGGGAATAAGGGCGACACGGAAATGTTGAATACTCATACTCTTCCTTTTTCAATATTATTGAAGCATTTATCAGGGTTATTGTCTCATGAGCGGATACATATTTGAATGTATTTAGAAAAATAAACAAATAGGGGTTCCGCGCACATTTCCCCGAAAAGTGCCACCTGACGTC

Adenovirus Polymerase Expression Construct:

Lentiviral construct allowing for constitutive expression of theHA-tagged adenovirus polymerase. The two sites that were mutated tocreate EP-Pol are underlined. pLV.CMV.AdPol-HA (WT-Pol vector) (SEQ IDNO: 32):

AATTCATGGCCTTGGCTCAAGCTCACCGGGCCCGTCGTCTTCACGCAGAGGCGCCAGATTCAGGAGATCAACCGCCGCGTCGTCGCGTTCGCCAGCAACCTACGCGCGCAGCACCAGCTCCTGCCCGCGCGCGGCGCCGACGTGCCCCTGCCCCCTCTCCCGGCGGGTCCGGAGCCCCCCCTACCTCCGGGGGCTCGCCCGCGTCACCGCTTTTAGATGCATCATCCAAGGACACCCCCGCGGCCCACCGCCCGCCGCGCGGTACCGTAGTCGCGCCGCGGGGATGCGGCCTCTTGCAAGCCATCGACGCCGCCACCAACCAGCCCCTGGAAATTAGGTATCACCTGGATCTAGCCCGCGCCCTGACCCGTCTATGCGAGGTAAACCTGCAGGAGCTCCCGCCTGACCTGACGCCGCGGGAGCTCCAGACCATGGACAGCTCCCATCTGCGCGATGTTGTCATCAAGCTCCGACCGCCGCGCGCGGACATCTGGACTTTGGGCTCGCGCGGCGTGGTGGTCCGATCCACCGTAACTCCCCTCGAGCAGCCAGACGGTCAAGGACAAGCAGCCGAAGTAGAAGACCACCAGCCAAACCCGCCAGGCGAGGGGCTCAAATTCCCACTCTGCTTCCTTGTGCGCGGTCGTCAGGTCAACCTCGTGCAGGATGTACAGCCCGTGCACCGCTGCCAGTACTGCGCACGTTTTTACAAAAGCCAGCACGAGTGTTCGGCCCGTCGCAGGGACTTCTACTTTCACCACATCAATAGCCACTCCTCCAATTGGTGGCGGGAGATCCAGTTCTTCCCGATCGGCTCGCATCCTCGCACCGAGCGTCTCTTTGTCACCTACGATGTAGAGACCTATACTTGGATGGGGGCCTTTGGGAAGCAGCTCGTGCCCTTCATGCTGGTCATGAAGTTCGGCGGAGATGAGCCTCTAGTGACTGCCGCGCGAGACCTAGCCGCGAACCTTGGATGGGACCGCTGGGAACAAGACCCGCTTACCTTCTACTGCATCACCCCAGAAAAAATGGCCATAGGTCGCCAGTTTAGGACCTTTCGCGACCACCTGCAAATGCTAATGGCCCGTGACCTGTGGAGCTCATTCGTCGCTTCCAACCCTCATCTTGCAGACTGGGCCCTTTCAGAGCACGGGCTCAGCTCCCCTGAAGAGCTCACCTACGAGGAACTTAAAAAATTGCCTTCCATCAAGGGCATCCCGCGCTTCTTGGAACTTTACATTGTGGGCCACAACATTAATGGGTTTGACGAGATCGTGCTCGCCGCCCAGGTAATTAACAACCGTTCCGAGGTGCCGGGACCCTTCCGCATCACACGCAACTTTATGCCTCGCGCGGGAAAGATACTCTTCAACGATGTCACCTTCGCCCTGCCAAATCCGCGTTCCAAAAAGCGCACGGACTTTTTGCTCTGGGAGCAGGGCGGATGCGACGACACTGACTTCAAATACCAGTACCTCAAAGTCATGGTCAGGGACACCTTTGCGCTCACCCACACCTCGCTCCGGAAGGCCGCGCAGGCATACGCGCTACCCGTAGAAAAGGGATGCTGCGCCTACCAGGCCGTCAACCAGTTCTACATGCTAGGCTCTTACCGTTCGGAGGCCGACGGGTTTCCGATCCAAGAGTACTGGAAAGACCGCGAAGAGTTTGTCCTCAACCGCGAGCTGTGGAAAAAAAAGGGACAGGATAAGTATGACATCATCAAGGAAACCCTGGACTACTGCGCCCTAGACGTGCAGGTCACCGCCGAGCTGGTCAACAAGCTGCGCGACTCCTACGCCTCCTTCGTGCGTGACGCGGTAGGTCTCACAGACGCCAGCTTCAACGTCTTCCAGCGTCCAACCATATCATCCAACTCACATGCCATCTTCAGGCAGATAGTCTTCCGAGCAGAGCAGCCCGCCCGTAGCAACCTCGGTCCCGACCTCCTCGCTCCCTCGCACGAACTATACGATTACGTGCGCGCCAGCATCCGCGGTGGAAGATGCTACCCTACATATCTTGGAATACTCAGAGAGCCCCTCTACGTTTACGACATTTGCGGCATGTACGCCTCCGCGCTCACCCACCCCATGCCATGGGGTCCCCCACTCAACCCATACGAGCGCGCGCTTGCCGCCCGCGCATGGCAGCAGGCGCTAGACTTGCAAGGATGCAAGATAGACTACTTCGACGCGCGCCTGCTGCCCGGGGTCTTTACCGTGGACGCAGACCCCCCGGACGAGACGCAGCTAGACCCCCTACCGCCATTCTGCTCGCGCAAGGGCGGCCGCCTCTGCTGGACCAACGAGCGCCTACGCGGAGAGGTAGCCACCAGCGTTGACCTTGTCACCCTGCACAACCGCGGTTGGCGCGTGCACCTGGTGCCCGACGAGCGCACCACCGTCTTTCCCGAATGGCGGTGCGTTGCGCGCGAATACGTGCAGCTAAACATCGCGGCCAAGGAGCGCGCCGATCGCGACAAAAACCAAACCCTGCGCTCCATCGCCAAGTTGCTGTCCAACGCCCTCTACGGGTCGTTTGCCACCAAGCTTGACAACAAAAAGATTGTCTTTTCTGACCAGATGGATGCGGCCACCCTCAAAGGCATCACCGCGGGCCAGGTGAATATCAAATCCTCCTCGTTTTTGGAAACTGACAATCTTAGCGCAGAAGTCATGCCCGCTTTTCAGAGGGAGTACTCACCCCAACAGCTGGCCCTCGCAGACAGCGATGCGGAAGAGAGTGAGGACGAACGCGCCCCCACCCCCTTTTATAGCCCCCCTTCAGGAACACCCGGTCACGTGGCCTACACCTACAAACCAATCACCTTCCTTGATGCCGAAGAGGGCGACATGTGTCTTCACACCCTGGAGCGAGTGGACCCCCTAGTGGACAACGACCGCTACCCCTCCCACTTAGCCTCCTTCGTGCTGGCCTGGACGCGAGCCTTTGTCTCAGAGTGGTCCGAGTTTCTATACGAGGAGGACCGCGGAACACCGCTCGAGGACAGGCCTCTCAAGTCTGTATACGGGGACACGGACAGCCTTTTCGTCACCGAGCGTGGACACCGGCTCATGGAAACCAGAGGTAAGAAACGCATCAAAAAGCATGGGGGAAACCTGGTTTTTGACCCCGAACGGCCAGAGCTCACCTGGCTCGTGGAATGCGAGACCGTCTGCGGGGCCTGCGGCGCGGATGCCTACTCCCCGGAATCGGTATTTCTCGCGCCCAAGCTCTACGCCCTCAAAAGTCTGCACTGCCCCTCGTGCGGCGCCTCCTCCAAGGGCAAGCTGCGCGCCAAGGGCCACGCCGCGGAGGGGCTGGACTATGACACCATGGTCAAATGCTACCTGGCCGACGCGCAGGGCGAAGACCGGCAGCGCTTCAGCACCAGCAGGACCAGCCTCAAGCGCACCCTGGCCAGCGCGCAGCCCGGAGCGCACCCCTTCACCGTGACCCAGACTACGCTGACGAGGACCCTGCGCCCGTGGAAAGACATGACCCTGGCCCGTCTGGACGAGCACCGACTACTGCCGTACAGCGAAAGCCGCCCCAACCCGCGAAACGAGGAGATATGCTGGATCGAGATGCCGTACCCATACGATGTTCCGGATTACGCTTAGAGCACGTGACTACATTTAAACCCTAACAAAACAAAGAGATGGGGTTACTCTCTAAATTTTATGGGTTATGTCATTGGATGTTATGGGTCCTTGCCACAAGAACACATCATACAAAAAATCAAAGAATGTTTTAGAAAACTTCCTATTAACAGGCCTATTGATTGGAAAGTATGTCAACGAATTGTGGGTCTTTTGGGTTTTGCTGCCCCTTTTACACAATGTGGTTATCCTGCGTTGATGCCTTTGTATGCATGTATTCAATCTAAGCAGGCTTTCACTTTCTCGCCAACTTACAAGGCCTTTCTGTGTAAACAATACCTGAACCTTTACCCCGTTGCCCGGCAACGGCCACCTCTGTGCCAAGTGTTTGCTGACGCAACCCCCACTGGCTGGGGCTTGGTCATGGGCCATCAGCGCATGCGTGGAACCTTTTCGGCTCCTCTGCCGATCCATACTGCGGAACTCCTAGCCGCTTGTTTTGCTCGCAGCAGGTCTGGAGCAAACATTATCGGGACTGATAACTCTGTTGTCCTATCCCGCAAATATACATCGTTTCCATGGCTGCTAGGCTGTGCTGCCAACTGGATCCTGCGCGGGACGTCCTTTGTTTACGTCCCGTCGGCGCTGAATCCTGCGGACGACCCTTCTCGGGGTCGCTTGGGACTCTCTCGTCCCCTTCTCCGTCTGCCGTTCCGACCGACCACGGGGCGCACCTCTCTTTACGCGGACTCCCCGTCTGTGCCTTCTCATCTGCCGGACCGTGTGCACTTCGCTTCACCTCTGCACGTCGCATGGAGACCACCGTGAACGCCCACCAAATATTGCCCAAGGTCTTACATAAGAGGACTCTTGGACTCTCAGCAATGTCAACGACCGACCTTGAGGCATACTTCAAAGACTGTTTGTTTAAAGACTGGGAGGAGTTGGGGGAGGAGATTAGGTTAAAGGTCTTTGTACTAGGAGGCTGTAGGCATAAATTGGTCTGCGCACCAGCACCATGTATCACTAGAGCGGGGTACCTTTAAGACCAATGACTTACAAGGCAGCTGTAGATCTTAGCCACTTTTTAAAAGAAAAGGGGGGACTTGGAAGGGCTAATTCACTCCCAACGAAGACAAGATCTGCTTTTTGCTTGTACTGGGTCTCTCTGGTTAGACCAGATCTGAGCCTGGGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGGGAACCCACTGCTTAAGCCTCAATAAAGCTTGCCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTCTGGTAACTAGAGATCCCTCAGACCCTTTTAGTCAGTGTGGAAAATCTCTAGCAGTAGTAGTTCATGTCATCTTATTATTCANGTATTTATAACTTGCAAAGAAATGAATATCAGAGAGTGAGAGGAACTTGTTTATTGCAGCTTATAATGGTTACAAATAAAGCAATAGCATCACAAATTTCACAAATAAAGCATTTTTTTCACTGCATTCTAGTTGTGGTTTGTCCAAACTCATCAATGTATCTTATCATGTCTGGCTCTAGCTATCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCAGTTCCGCCCATTCTCCGCCCCATGGCTGACTAATTTTTTTTATTTATGCAGAGGCCGAGGCCGCCTCGGCCTCTGAGCTATTCCAGAAGTAGTGAGGAGGCTTTTTTGGAGGCCTAGGCTTTTGCGTCGAGACGTACCCAATTCGCCCTATAGTGAGTCGTATTACGCGCGCTCACTGGCCGTCGTTTTACAACGTCGTGACTGGGAAAACCCTGGCGTTACCCAACTTAATCGCCTTGCAGCACATCCCCCTTTCGCCAGCTGGCGTAATAGCGAAGAGGCCCGCACCGATCGCCCTTCCCAACAGTTGCGCAGCCTGAATGGCGAATGGCGCGACGCGCCCTGTAGCGGCGCATTAAGCGCGGCGGGTGTGGTGGTTACGCGCAGCGTGACCGCTACACTTGCCAGCGCCCTAGCGCCCGCTCCTTTCGCTTTCTTCCCTTCCTTTCTCGCCACGTTCGCCGGCTTTCCCCGTCAAGCTCTAAATCGGGGGCTCCCTTTAGGGTTCCGATTTAGTGCTTTACGGCACCTCGACCCCAAAAAACTTGATTAGGGTGATGGTTCACGTAGTGGGCCATCGCCCTGATAGACGGTTTTTCGCCCTTTGACGTTGGAGTCCACGTTCTTTAATAGTGGACTCTTGTTCCAAACTGGAACAACACTCAACCCTATCTCGGTCTATTCTTTTGATTTATAAGGGATTTTGCCGATTTCGGCCTATTGGTTAAAAAATGAGCTGATTTAACAAAAATTTAACGCGAATTTTAACAAAATATTAACGTTTACAATTTCCCAGGTGGCACTTTTCGGGGAAATGTGCGCGGAACCCCTATTTGTTTATTTTTCTAAATACATTCAAATATGTATCCGCTCATGAGACAATAACCCTGATAAATGCTTCAATAATATTGAAAAAGGAAGAGTATGAGTATTCAACATTTCCGTGTCGCCCTTATTCCCTTTTTTGCGGCATTTTGCCTTCCTGTTTTTGCTCACCCAGAAACGCTGGTGAAAGTAAAAGATGCTGAAGATCAGTTGGGTGCACGAGTGGGTTACATCGAACTGGATCTCAACAGCGGTAAGATCCTTGAGAGTTTTCGCCCCGAAGAACGTTTTCCAATGATGAGCACTTTTAAAGTTCTGCTATGTGGCGCGGTATTATCCCGTATTGACGCCGGGCAAGAGCAACTCGGTCGCCGCATACACTATTCTCAGAATGACTTGGTTGAGTACTCACCAGTCACAGAAAAGCATCTTACGGATGGCATGACAGTAAGAGAATTATGCAGTGCTGCCATAACCATGAGTGATAACACTGCGGCCAACTTACTTCTGACAACGATCGGAGGACCGAAGGAGCTAACCGCTTTTTTGCACAACATGGGGGATCATGTAACTCGCCTTGATCGTTGGGAACCGGAGCTGAATGAAGCCATACCAAACGACGAGCGTGACACCACGATGCCTGTAGCAATGGCAACAACGTTGCGCAAACTATTAACTGGCGAACTACTTACTCTAGCTTCCCGGCAACAATTAATAGACTGGATGGAGGCGGATAAAGTTGCAGGACCACTTCTGCGCTCGGCCCTTCCGGCTGGCTGGTTTATTGCTGATAAATCTGGAGCCGGTGAGCGTGGGTCTCGCGGTATCATTGCAGCACTGGGGCCAGATGGTAAGCCCTCCCGTATCGTAGTTATCTACACGACGGGGAGTCAGGCAACTATGGATGAACGAAATAGACAGATCGCTGAGATAGGTGCCTCACTGATTAAGCATTGGTAACTGTCAGACCAAGTTTACTCATATATACTTTAGATTGATTTAAAACTTCATTTTTAATTTAAAAGGATCTAGGTGAAGATCCTTTTTGATAATCTCATGACCAAAATCCCTTAACGTGAGTTTTCGTTCCACTGAGCGTCAGACCCCGTAGAAAAGATCAAAGGATCTTCTTGAGATCCTTTTTTTCTGCGCGTAATCTGCTGCTTGCAAACAAAAAAACCACCGCTACCAGCGGTGGTTTGTTTGCCGGATCAAGAGCTACCAACTCTTTTTCCGAAGGTAACTGGCTTCAGCAGAGCGCAGATACCAAATACTGTCCTTCTAGTGTAGCCGTAGTTAGGCCACCACTTCAAGAACTCTGTAGCACCGCCTACATACCTCGCTCTGCTAATCCTGTTACCAGTGGCTGCTGCCAGTGGCGATAAGTCGTGTCTTACCGGGTTGGACTCAAGACGATAGTTACCGGATAAGGCGCAGCGGTCGGGCTGAACGGGGGGTTCGTGCACACAGCCCAGCTTGGAGCGAACGACCTACACCGAACTGAGATACCTACAGCGTGAGCTATGAGAAAGCGCCACGCTTCCCGAAGGGAGAAAGGCGGACAGGTATCCGGTAAGCGGCAGGGTCGGAACAGGAGAGCGCACGAGGGAGCTTCCAGGGGGAAACGCCTGGTATCTTTATAGTCCTGTCGGGTTTCGCCACCTCTGACTTGAGCGTCGATTTTTGTGATGCTCGTCAGGGGGGCGGAGCCTATGGAAAAACGCCAGCAACGCGGCCTTTTTACGGTTCCTGGCCTTTTGCTGGCCTTTTGCTCACATGTTCTTTCCTGCGTTATCCCCTGATTCTGTGGATAACCGTATTACCGCCTTTGAGTGAGCTGATACCGCTCGCCGCAGCCGAACGACCGAGCGCAGCGAGTCAGTGAGCGAGGAAGCGGAAGAGCGCCCAATACGCAAACCGCCTCTCCCCGCGCGTTGGCCGATTCATTAATGCAGCTGGCACGACAGGTTTCCCGACTGGAAAGCGGGCAGTGAGCGCAACGCAATTAATGTGAGTTAGCTCACTCATTAGGCACCCCAGGCTTTACACTTTATGCTTCCGGCTCGTATGTTGTGTGGAATTGTGAGCGGATAACAATTTCACACAGGAAACAGCTATGACCATGATTACGCCAAGCGCGCAATTAACCCTCACTAAAGGGAACAAAAGCTGGAGCTGCAAGCTTAATGTAGTCTTATGCAATACTCTTGTAGTCTTGCAACATGGTAACGATGAGTTAGCAACATGCCTTACAAGGAGAGAAAAAGCACCGTGCATGCCGATTGGTGGAAGTAAGGTGGTACGATCGTGCCTTATTAGGAAGGCAACAGACGGGTCTGACATGGATTGGACGAACCACTGAATTGGAGGCGTGGCCTGGGCGGGACTGGGGAGTGGCGAGCCCTCAGATCCTGCATATAAGCAGCTGCTTTTTGCCTGTACTGGGTCTCTCTGGTTAGACCAGATCTGAGCCTGGGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGGGAACCCACTGCTTAAGCCTCAATAAAGCTTGCCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTCTGGTAACTAGAGATCCCTCAGACCCTTTTAGTCAGTGTGGAAAATCTCTAGCAGTGGCGCCCGAACAGGGACCTGAAAGCGAAAGGGAAACCAGAGCTCTCTCGACGCAGGACTCGGCTTGCTGAAGCGCGCACGGCAAGAGGCGAGGGGCGGCGACTGGTGAGTACGCCAAAAATTTTGACTAGCGGAGGCTAGAAGGAGAGAGATGGGTGCGAGAGCGTCAGTATTAAGCGGGGGAGAATTAGATCGCGATGGGAAAAAATTCGGTTAAGGCCAGGGGGAAAGAAAAAATATAAATTAAAACATATAGTATGGGCAAGCAGGGAGCTAGAACGATTCGCAGTTAATCCTGGCCTGTTAGAAACATCAGAAGGCTGTAGACAAATACTGGGACAGCTACAACCATCCCTTCAGACAGGATCAGAAGAACTTAGATCATTATATAATACAGTAGCAACCCTCTATTGTGTGCATCAAAGGATAGAGATAAAAGACACCAAGGAAGCTTTAGACAAGATAGAGGAAGAGCAAAACAAAAGTAAGACCACCGCACAGCAAGCGGCCGCTGATCTTCAGACCTGGAGGAGGAGATATGAGGGACAATTGGAGAAGTGAATTATATAAATATAAAGTAGTAAAAATTGAACCATTAGGAGTAGCACCCACCAAGGCAAAGAGAAGAGTGGTGCAGAGAGAAAAAAGAGCAGTGGGAATAGGAGCTTTGTTCCTTGGGTTCTTGGGAGCAGCAGGAAGCACTATGGGCGCAGCCTCAATGACGCTGACGGTACAGGCCAGACAATTATTGTCTGGTATAGTGCAGCAGCAGAACAATTTGCTGAGGGCTATTGAGGCGCAACAGCATCTGTTGCAACTCACAGTCTGGGGCATCAAGCAGCTCCAGGCAAGAATCCTGGCTGTGGAAAGATACCTAAAGGATCAACAGCTCCTGGGGATTTGGGGTTGCTCTGGAAAACTCATTTGCACCACTGCTGTGCCTTGGAATGCTAGTTGGAGTAATAAATCTCTGGAACAGATTGGAATCACACGACCTGGATGGAGTGGGACAGAGAAATTAACAATTACACAAGCTTAATACACTC CTTAATTGAAGAATCGCAAAACCAGCAAGAAAAGAATGAACAAGAATTATTGGAATTAGATAAATGGGCAAGTTTGTGGAATTGGTTTAACATAACAAATTGGCTGTGGTATATAAAATTATTCATAATGATAGTAGGAGGCTTGGTAGGTTTAAGAATAGTTTTTGCTGTACTTTCTATAGTGAATAGAGTTAGGCAGGGATATTCACCATTATCGTTTCAGACCCACCTCCCAACCCCGAGGGGACCCGACAGGCCCGAAGGAATAGAAGAAGAAGGTGGAGAGAGAGACAGAGACAGATCCATTCGATTAGTGAACGGATCTCGACGGTATCGGTTTTAAAAGAAAAGGGGGGATTGGGGGGTACAGTGCAGGGGAAAGAATAGTAGACATAATAGCAACAGACATACAAACTAAAGAATTACAAAAACAAATTACAAAAATTCAAAATTTTATCGATAAGCTTGGGAGTTCCGCGTTACATAACTTACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCTGACCGCCCAACGACCCCCGCCCATTGACGTCAATAATGACGTATGTTCCCATAGTAACGCCAATAGGGACTTTCCATTGACGTCAATGGGTGGAGTATTTACGGTAAACTGCCCACTTGGCAGTACATCAAGTGTATCATATGCCAAGTACGCCCCCTATTGACGGTCAATGACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCATTATGCCCAGTACATGACCTTATGGGACTTTCCTACTTGGCAGTACATCTACGTATTAGTCATCGCTATTACCATGGTGATGCGGTTTTGGCAGTACATCAATGGGCGTGGATAGCGGTTTGACTCACGGGGATTTCCAAGTCTCCACCCCATTGACGTCAATGGGAGTTTGTTTTGGCACCAAAATCAACGGGACTTTCCAAAATGTCGTAACAACTCCGCCCCATTGACGCAAATGGGCGGTAGGCGTGTACGGTGGGAGGTCTATATAAGCAGAGCTCGTTTAGTGAACCGTCAGATCGCCTGGAGACGCCATCCACGCTGTTTTGACCTCCATAGAAGACACCGACKTCTAGCTAGAGGATCCCCCGGGCTGCAGG

Ad-Prot Constitutive Expression Construct.

Lentivirus construct for constitutive expression of Ad-prot. Thetripartite leader sequence and ad-prot sequence are lowercase.pLenti.CMV.TPL.Protease.Hygro (cProt vector) (SEQ ID NO: 33):

CAGGTGGCACTTTTCGGGGAAATGTGCGCGGAACCCCTATTTGTTTATTTTTCTAAATACATTCAAATATGTATCCGCTCATGAGACAATAACCCTGATAAATGCTTCAATAATATTGAAAAAGGAAGAGTATGAGTATTCAACATTTCCGTGTCGCCCTTATTCCCTTTTTTGCGGCATTTTGCCTTCCTGTTTTTGCTCACCCAGAAACGCTGGTGAAAGTAAAAGATGCTGAAGATCAGTTGGGTGCACGAGTGGGTTACATCGAACTGGATCTCAACAGCGGTAAGATCCTTGAGAGTTTTCGCCCCGAAGAACGTTTTCCAATGATGAGCACTTTTAAAGTTCTGCTATGTGGCGCGGTATTATCCCGTATTGACGCCGGGCAAGAGCAACTCGGTCGCCGCATACACTATTCTCAGAATGACTTGGTTGAGTACTCACCAGTCACAGAAAAGCATCTTACGGATGGCATGACAGTAAGAGAATTATGCAGTGCTGCCATAACCATGAGTGATAACACTGCGGCCAACTTACTTCTGACAACGATCGGAGGACCGAAGGAGCTAACCGCTTTTTTGCACAACATGGGGGATCATGTAACTCGCCTTGATCGTTGGGAACCGGAGCTGAATGAAGCCATACCAAACGACGAGCGTGACACCACGATGCCTGTAGCAATGGCAACAACGTTGCGCAAACTATTAACTGGCGAACTACTTACTCTAGCTTCCCGGCAACAATTAATAGACTGGATGGAGGCGGATAAAGTTGCAGGACCACTTCTGCGCTCGGCCCTTCCGGCTGGCTGGTTTATTGCTGATAAATCTGGAGCCGGTGAGCGTGGGTCTCGCGGTATCATTGCAGCACTGGGGCCAGATGGTAAGCCCTCCCGTATCGTAGTTATCTACACGACGGGGAGTCAGGCAACTATGGATGAACGAAATAGACAGATCGCTGAGATAGGTGCCTCACTGATTAAGCATTGGTAACTGTCAGACCAAGTTTACTCATATATACTTTAGATTGATTTAAAACTTCATTTTTAATTTAAAAGGATCTAGGTGAAGATCCTTTTTGATAATCTCATGACCAAAATCCCTTAACGTGAGTTTTCGTTCCACTGAGCGTCAGACCCCGTAGAAAAGATCAAAGGATCTTCTTGAGATCCTTTTTTTCTGCGCGTAATCTGCTGCTTGCAAACAAAAAAACCACCGCTACCAGCGGTGGTTTGTTTGCCGGATCAAGAGCTACCAACTCTTTTTCCGAAGGTAACTGGCTTCAGCAGAGCGCAGATACCAAATACTGTCCTTCTAGTGTAGCCGTAGTTAGGCCACCACTTCAAGAACTCTGTAGCACCGCCTACATACCTCGCTCTGCTAATCCTGTTACCAGTGGCTGCTGCCAGTGGCGATAAGTCGTGTCTTACCGGGTTGGACTCAAGACGATAGTTACCGGATAAGGCGCAGCGGTCGGGCTGAACGGGGGGTTCGTGCACACAGCCCAGCTTGGAGCGAACGACCTACACCGAACTGAGATACCTACAGCGTGAGCTATGAGAAAGCGCCACGCTTCCCGAAGGGAGAAAGGCGGACAGGTATCCGGTAAGCGGCAGGGTCGGAACAGGAGAGCGCACGAGGGAGCTTCCAGGGGGAAACGCCTGGTATCTTTATAGTCCTGTCGGGTTTCGCCACCTCTGACTTGAGCGTCGATTTTTGTGATGCTCGTCAGGGGGGCGGAGCCTATGGAAAAACGCCAGCAACGCGGCCTTTTTACGGTTCCTGGCCTTTTGCTGGCCTTTTGCTCACATGTTCTTTCCTGCGTTATCCCCTGATTCTGTGGATAACCGTATTACCGCCTTTGAGTGAGCTGATACCGCTCGCCGCAGCCGAACGACCGAGCGCAGCGAGTCAGTGAGCGAGGAAGCGGAAGAGCGCCCAATACGCAAACCGCCTCTCCCCGCGCGTTGGCCGATTCATTAATGCAGCTGGCACGACAGGTTTCCCGACTGGAAAGCGGGCAGTGAGCGCAACGCAATTAATGTGAGTTAGCTCACTCATTAGGCACCCCAGGCTTTACACTTTATGCTTCCGGCTCGTATGTTGTGTGGAATTGTGAGCGGATAACAATTTCACACAGGAAACAGCTATGACCATGATTACGCCAAGCGCGCAATTAACCCTCACTAAAGGGAACAAAAGCTGGAGCTGCAAGCTTAATGTAGTCTTATGCAATACTCTTGTAGTCTTGCAACATGGTAACGATGAGTTAGCAACATGCCTTACAAGGAGAGAAAAAGCACCGTGCATGCCGATTGGTGGAAGTAAGGTGGTACGATCGTGCCTTATTAGGAAGGCAACAGACGGGTCTGACATGGATTGGACGAACCACTGAATTGCCGCATTGCAGAGATATTGTATTTAAGTGCCTAGCTCGATACAATAAACGGGTCTCTCTGGTTAGACCAGATCTGAGCCTGGGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGGGAACCCACTGCTTAAGCCTCAATAAAGCTTGCCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTCTGGTAACTAGAGATCCCTCAGACCCTTTTAGTCAGTGTGGAAAATCTCTAGCAGTGGCGCCCGAACAGGGACCTGAAAGCGAAAGGGAAACCAGAGCTCTCTCGACGCAGGACTCGGCTTGCTGAAGCGCGCACGGCAAGAGGCGAGGGGCGGCGACTGGTGAGTACGCCAAAAATTTTGACTAGCGGAGGCTAGAAGGAGAGAGATGGGTGCGAGAGCGTCAGTATTAAGCGGGGGAGAATTAGATCGCGATGGGAAAAAATTCGGTTAAGGCCAGGGGGAAAGAAAAAATATAAATTAAAACATATAGTATGGGCAAGCAGGGAGCTAGAACGATTCGCAGTTAATCCTGGCCTGTTAGAAACATCAGAAGGCTGTAGACAAATACTGGGACAGCTACAACCATCCCTTCAGACAGGATCAGAAGAACTTAGATCATTATATAATACAGTAGCAACCCTCTATTGTGTGCATCAAAGGATAGAGATAAAAGACACCAAGGAAGCTTTAGACAAGATAGAGGAAGAGCAAAACAAAAGTAAGACCACCGCACAGCAAGCGGCCGCTGATCTTCAGACCTGGAGGAGGAGATATGAGGGACAATTGGAGAAGTGAATTATATAAATATAAAGTAGTAAAAATTGAACCATTAGGAGTAGCACCCACCAAGGCAAAGAGAAGAGTGGTGCAGAGAGAAAAAAGAGCAGTGGGAATAGGAGCTTTGTTCCTTGGGTTCTTGGGAGCAGCAGGAAGCACTATGGGCGCAGCCTCAATGACGCTGACGGTACAGGCCAGACAATTATTGTCTGGTATAGTGCAGCAGCAGAACAATTTGCTGAGGGCTATTGAGGCGCAACAGCATCTGTTGCAACTCACAGTCTGGGGCATCAAGCAGCTCCAGGCAAGAATCCTGGCTGTGGAAAGATACCTAAAGGATCAACAGCTCCTGGGGATTTGGGGTTGCTCTGGAAAACTCATTTGCACCACTGCTGTGCCTTGGAATGCTAGTTGGAGTAATAAATCTCTGGAACAGATTGGAATCACACGACCTGGATGGAGTGGGACAGAGAAATTAACAATTACACAAGCTTAATACACTCCTTAATTGAAGAATCGCAAAACCAGCAAGAAAAGAATGAACAAGAATTATTGGAATTAGATAAATGGGCAAGTTTGTGGAATTGGTTTAACATAACAAATTGGCTGTGGTATATAAAATTATTCATAATGATAGTAGGAGGCTTGGTAGGTTTAAGAATAGTTTTTGCTGTACTTTCTATAGTGAATAGAGTTAGGCAGGGATATTCACCATTATCGTTTCAGACCCACCTCCCAACCCCGAGGGGACCCGACAGGCCCGAAGGAATAGAAGAAGAAGGTGGAGAGAGAGACAGAGACAGATCCATTCGATTAGTGAACGGATCTCGACGGTTAACTTTTAAAAGAAAAGGGGGGATTGGGGGGTACAGTGCAGGGGAAAGAATAGTAGACATAATAGCAACAGACATACAAACTAAAGAATTACAAAAACAAATTACAAAAATTCAAAATTTTATCGATAAGCTTGGGAGTTCCGCGTTACATAACTTACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCTGACCGCCCAACGACCCCCGCCCATTGACGTCAATAATGACGTATGTTCCCATAGTAACGCCAATAGGGACTTTCCATTGACGTCAATGGGTGGAGTATTTACGGTAAACTGCCCACTTGGCAGTACATCAAGTGTATCATATGCCAAGTACGCCCCCTATTGACGTCAATGACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCATTATGCCCAGTACATGACCTTATGGGACTTTCCTACTTGGCAGTACATCTACGTATTAGTCATCGCTATTACCATGGTGATGCGGTTTTGGCAGTACATCAATGGGCGTGGATAGCGGTTTGACTCACGGGGATTTCCAAGTCTCCACCCCATTGACGTCAATGGGAGTTTGTTTTGGCACCAAAATCAACGGGACTTTCCAAAATGTCGTAACAACTCCGCCCCATTGACGCAAATGGGCGGTAGGCGTGTACGGTGGGAGGTCTATATAAGCAGAGCTCGTTTAGTGAACCGTCAGATCGCCTGGAGACGCCATCCACGCTGTTTTGACCTCCATAGAAGACACCGACTCTAGTCCAGTGTGGTGGAATTCTGCAGATATCAACAAGTTTGTACAAAAAAGCAGGCTTTAAAGGAACCAATTCAGTCGACTGGATCCGGTACCGAATTCGCGGCCGCactctcttccgcatcgctgtctgcgagggccagctgttgggctcgcggttgaggacaaactcttcgcggtctttccagtactcttggatcggaaacccgtcggcctccgaacaggtactccgccgccgagggacctgagcgagtccgcatcgaccggatcggaaaacctctcgagaaaggcgtctaaccagtcacagtcgcaatgggctccagtgagcaggaactgaaagccattgtcaaagatcttggttgtgggccatattttttgggcacctatgacaagcgctttccaggctttgtttctccacacaagctcgcctgcgccatagtcaatacggccggtcgcgagactgggggcgtacactggatggcctttgcctggaacccgcactcaaaaacatgctacctctttgagccctttggcttttctgaccagcgactcaagcaggtttaccagtttgagtacgagtcactcctgcgccgtagcgccattgcttcttcccccgaccgctgtataacgctggaaaagtccacccaaagcgtacaggggcccaactcggccgcctgtggactattctgctgcatgtttctccacgcctttgccaactggccccaaactcccatggatcacaaccccaccatgaaccttattaccggggtacccaactccatgctcaacagtccccaggtacagcccaccctgcgtcgcaaccaggaacagctctacagcttcctggagcgccactcgccctacttccgcagccacagtgcgcagattaggagcgccacttctttttgtcacttgaaaaacatgtaaTCTAGACCCAGCTTTCTTGTACAAAGTGGTTGATATCCAGCACAGTGGCGGCCGCTCGACAATCAACCTCTGGATTACAAAATTTGTGAAAGATTGACTGGTATTCTTAACTATGTTGCTCCTTTTACGCTATGTGGATACGCTGCTTTAATGCCTTTGTATCATGCTATTGCTTCCCGTATGGCTTTCATTTTCTCCTCCTTGTATAAATCCTGGTTGCTGTCTCTTTATGAGGAGTTGTGGCCCGTTGTCAGGCAACGTGGCGTGGTGTGCACTGTGTTTGCTGACGCAACCCCCACTGGTTGGGGCATTGCCACCACCTGTCAGCTCCTTTCCGGGACTTTCGCTTTCCCCCTCCCTATTGCCACGGCGGAACTCATCGCCGCCTGCCTTGCCCGCTGCTGGACAGGGGCTCGGCTGTTGGGCACTGACAATTCCGTGGTGTTGTCGGGGAAGCTGACGTCCTTTCCATGGCTGCTCGCCTGTGTTGCCACCTGGATTCTGCGCGGGACGTCCTTCTGCTACGTCCCTTCGGCCCTCAATCCAGCGGACCTTCCTTCCCGCGGCCTGCTGCCGGCTCTGCGGCCTCTTCCGCGTCTTCGCCTTCGCCCTCAGACGAGTCGGATCTCCCTTTGGGCCGCCTCCCCGCCTGGAATTCTGCAGATATCCGGACTAGTGATCTCTCGAGGTTAACGAATTCTACCGGGTAGGGGAGGCGCTTTTCCCAAGGCAGTCTGGAGCATGCGCTTTAGCAGCCCCGCTGGGCACTTGGCGCTACACAAGTGGCCTCTGGCCTCGCACACATTCCACATCCACCGGTAGGCGCCAACCGGCTCCGTTCTTTGGTGGCCCCTTCGCGCCACCTTCTACTCCTCCCCTAGTCAGGAAGTTCCCCCCCGCCCCGCAGCTCGCGTCGTGCAGGACGTGACAAATGGAAGTAGCACGTCTCACTAGTCTCGTGCAGATGGACAGCACCGCTGAGCAATGGAAGCGGGTAGGCCTTTGGGGCAGCGGCCAATAGCAGCTTTGCTCCTTCGCTTTCTGGGCTCAGAGGCTGGGAAGGGGTGGGTCCGGGGGCGGGCTCAGGGGCGGGCTCAGGGGCGGGGCGGGCGCCCGAAGGTCCTCCGGAGGCCCGGCATTCTGCACGCTTCAAAAGCGCACGTCTGCCGCGCTGTTCTCCTCTTCCTCATCTCCGGGCCTTTCGACCTGCATCCCGCCACCATGAAAAAGCCTGAACTCACCGCGACGTCTGTCGAGAAGTTTCTGATCGAAAAGTTCGACAGCGTCTCCGACCTGATGCAGCTCTCGGAGGGCGAAGAATCTCGTGCTTTCAGCTTCGATGTAGGAGGGCGTGGATATGTCCTGCGGGTAAATAGCTGCGCCGATGGTTTCTACAAAGATCGTTATGTTTATCGGCACTTTGCATCGGCCGCGCTCCCGATTCCGGAAGTGCTTGACATTGGGGAATTCAGCGAGAGCCTGACCTATTGCATCTCCCGCCGTGCACAGGGTGTCACGTTGCAAGACCTGCCTGAAACCGAACTGCCCGCTGTTCTGCAGCCGGTCGCGGAGGCCATGGATGCGATCGCTGCGGCCGATCTTAGCCAGACGAGCGGGTTCGGCCCATTCGGACCGCAAGGAATCGGTCAATACACTACATGGCGTGATTTCATATGCGCGATTGCTGATCCCCATGTGTATCACTGGCAAACTGTGATGGACGACACCGTCAGTGCGTCCGTCGCGCAGGCTCTCGATGAGCTGATGCTTTGGGCCGAGGACTGCCCCGAAGTCCGGCACCTCGTGCACGCGGATTTCGGCTCCAACAATGTCCTGACGGACAATGGCCGCATAACAGCGGTCATTGACTGGAGCGAGGCGATGTTCGGGGATTCCCAATACGAGGTCGCCAACATCTTCTTCTGGAGGCCGTGGTTGGCTTGTATGGAGCAGCAGACGCGCTACTTCGAGCGGAGGCATCCGGAGCTTGCAGGATCGCCGCGGCTCCGGGGCGTATATGCTCCGCATTGGTCTTGACCAACTCTATCAGAGCTTGGTTGACGGCAATTTCGATGATGCAGCTTGGGCGCAGGGTCGATGCGACGCAATCGTCCGATCCGGAGCCGGGACTGTCGGGCGTACACAAATCGCCCGCAGAAGCGCGGCCGTCTGGACCGATGGCTGTGTAGAAGTACTCGCCGATAGTGGAAACCGACGCCCCAGCACTCGTCCGAGGGCAAAGGAATAGAGTAGATGCCGACCGAACAAGAGCTGATTTCGAGAACGCCTCAGCCAGCAACTCGCGCGAGCCTAGCAAGGCAAATGCGAGAGAACGGCCTTACGCTTGGTGGCACAGTTCTCGTCCACAGTTCGCTAAGCTCGCTCGGCTGGGTCGCGGGAGGGCCGGTCGCAGTGATTCAGGCCCTTCTGGATTGTGTTGGTCCCCAGGGCACGATTGTCATGCCCACGCACTCGGGTGATCTGACTGATCCCGCAGATTGGAGATCGCCGCCCGTGCCTGCCGATTGGGTGCAGATCCGTCGAGGGCCCGGTACCTTTAAGACCAATGACTTACAAGGCAGCTGTAGATCTTAGCCACTTTTTAAAAGAAAAGGGGGGACTGGAAGGGCTAGCTCACTCCCAACGAAGACAAGATCTGCTTTTTGCTTGTACTGGGTCTCTCTGGTTAGACCAGATCTGAGCCTGGGAGCTCTCTGGCTGCCTAGGGAACCCACTGCTTAAGCCTCAATAAAGCTTGCCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTCTGGTAACTAGAGATCCCTCAGACCCTTTTAGTCAGTGTGGAAAATCTCTAGCAGTAGTAGTTCATGTCATCTTATTATTCAGTATTTATAACTTGCAAAGAAATGAATATCAGAGAGTGAGAGGAACTTGTTTATTGCAGCTTATAATGGTTACAAATAAAGCAATAGCATCACAAATTTCACAAATAAAGCATTTTTTTCACTGCATTCTAGTTGTGGTTTGTCCAAACTCATCAATGTATCTTATCATGTCTGGCTCTAGCTATCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCAGTTCCGCCCATTCTCCGCCCCATGGCTGACTAATTTTTTTTATTTATGCAGAGGCCGAGGCCGCCTCGGCCTCTGAGCTATTCCAGAAGTAGTGAGGAGGCTTTTTTGGAGGCCTAGGCTTTTGCGTCGAGACGTACCCAATTCGCCCTATAGTGAGTCGTATTACGCGCGCTCACTGGCCGTCGTTTTACAACGTCGTGACTGGGAAAACCCTGGCGTTACCCAACTTAATCGCCTTGCAGCACATCCCCCTTTCGCCAGCTGGCGTAATAGCGAAGAGGCCCGCACCGATCGCCCTTCCCAACAGTTGCGCAGCCTGAATGGCGAATGGCGCGACGCGCCCTGTAGCGGCGCATTAAGCGCGGCGGGTGTGGTGGTTACGCGCAGCGTGACCGCTACACTTGCCAGCGCCCTAGCGCCCGCTCCTTTCGCTTTCTTCCCTTCCTTTCTCGCCACGTTCGCCGGCTTTCCCCGTCAAGCTCTAAATCGGGGGCTCCCTTTAGGGTTCCGATTTAGTGCTTTACGGCACCTCGACCCCAAAAAACTTGATTAGGGTGATGGTTCACGTAGTGGGCCATCGCCCTGATAGACGGTTTTTCGCCCTTTGACGTTGGAGTCCACGTTCTTTAATAGTGGACTCTTGTTCCAAACTGGAACAACACTCAACCCTATCTCGGTCTATTCTTTTGATTTATAAGGGATTTTGCCGATTTCGGCCTATTGGTTAAAAAATGAGCTGATTTAACAAAAATTTAACGCGAATTTTAACAAAATATTAACGTTTACAATTTCC

Ad-Prot Inducible Expression Construct:

Lentivirus construct for inducible expression of ad-prot. Ad-prot wasplaced under control of the TRE3G promoter. The tripartite leadersequence and ad-prot sequence are lowercase. pLVX.TRE3G.TPL.AVP.Puro(iProt vector) (SEQ ID NO: 34):

TGGAAGGGCTAATTCACTCCCAAAGAAGACAAGATATCCTTGATCTGTGGATCTACCACACACAAGGCTACTTCCCTGATTAGCAGAACTACACACCAGGGCCAGGGGTCAGATATCCACTGACCTTTGGATGGTGCTACAAGCTAGTACCAGTTGAGCCAGATAAGGTAGAAGAGGCCAATAAAGGAGAGAACACCAGCTTGTTACACCCTGTGAGCCTGCATGGGATGGATGACCCGGAGAGAGAAGTGTTAGAGTGGAGGTTTGACAGCCGCCTAGCATTTCATCACGTGGCCCGAGAGCTGCATCCGGAGTACTTCAAGAACTGCTGATATCGAGCTTGCTACAAGGGACTTTCCGCTGGGGACTTTCCAGGGAGGCGTGGCCTGGGCGGGACTGGGGAGTGGCGAGCCCTCAGATCCTGCATATAAGCAGCTGCTTTTTGCCTGTACTGGGTCTCTCTGGTTAGACCAGATCTGAGCCTGGGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGGGAACCCACTGCTTAAGCCTCAATAAAGCTTGCCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTCTGGTAACTAGAGATCCCTCAGACCCTTTTAGTCAGTGTGGAAAATCTCTAGCAGTGGCGCCCGAACAGGGACTTGAAAGCGAAAGGGAAACCAGAGGAGCTCTCTCGACGCAGGACTCGGCTTGCTGAAGCGCGCACGGCAAGAGGCGAGGGGCGGCGACTGGTGAGTACGCCAAAAATTTTGACTAGCGGAGGCTAGAAGGAGAGAGATGGGTGCGAGAGCGTCAGTATTAAGCGGGGGAGAATTAGATCGCGATGGGAAAAAATTCGGTTAAGGCCAGGGGGAAAGAAAAAATATAAATTAAAACATATAGTATGGGCAAGCAGGGAGCTAGAACGATTCGCAGTTAATCCTGGCCTGTTAGAAACATCAGAAGGCTGTAGACAAATACTGGGACAGCTACAACCATCCCTTCAGACAGGATCAGAAGAACTTAGATCATTATATAATACAGTAGCAACCCTCTATTGTGTGCATCAAAGGATAGAGATAAAAGACACCAAGGAAGCTTTAGACAAGATAGAGGAAGAGCAAAACAAAAGTAAGACCACCGCACAGCAAGCGGCCGGCCGCTGATCTTCAGACCTGGAGGAGGAGATATGAGGGACAATTGGAGAAGTGAATTATATAAATATAAAGTAGTAAAAATTGAACCATTAGGAGTAGCACCCACCAAGGCAAAGAGAAGAGTGGTGCAGAGAGAAAAAAGAGCAGTGGGAATAGGAGCTTTGTTCCTTGGGTTCTTGGGAGCAGCAGGAAGCACTATGGGCGCAGCGTCAATGACGCTGACGGTACAGGCCAGACAATTATTGTCTGGTATAGTGCAGCAGCAGAACAATTTGCTGAGGGCTATTGAGGCGCAACAGCATCTGTTGCAACTCACAGTCTGGGGCATCAAGCAGCTCCAGGCAAGAATCCTGGCTGTGGAAAGATACCTAAAGGATCAACAGCTCCTGGGGATTTGGGGTTGCTCTGGAAAACTCATTTGCACCACTGCTGTGCCTTGGAATGCTAGTTGGAGTAATAAATCTCTGGAACAGATTTGGAATCACACGACCTGGATGGAGTGGGACAGAGAAATTAACAATTACACAAGCTTAATACACTCCTTAATTGAAGAATCGCAAAACCAGCAAGAAAAGAATGAACAAGAATTATTGGAATTAGATAAATGGGCAAGTTTGTGGAATTGGTTTAACATAACAAATTGGCTGTGGTATATAAAATTATTCATAATGATAGTAGGAGGCTTGGTAGGTTTAAGAATAGTTTTTGCTGTACTTTCTATAGTGAATAGAGTTAGGCAGGGATATTCACCATTATCGTTTCAGACCCACCTCCCAACCCCGAGGGGACCCGACAGGCCCGAAGGAATAGAAGAAGAAGGTGGAGAGAGAGACAGAGACAGATCCATTCGATTAGTGAACGGATCTCGACGGTATCGCCTTTAAAAGAAAAGGGGGGATTGGGGGGTACAGTGCAGGGGAAAGAATAGTAGACATAATAGCAACAGACATACAAACTAAAGAACTACAAAAACAAATTACAAAAATTCAAAATTTTCGGGTTTATTACAGGGACAGCAGAGATCCAGTTTATCGATGAGGCCCTTTCGTCTTCACTCGAGTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATGAAGAGTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATGCAGACTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATAAGGAGTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATGACCAGTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATCTACAGTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATATCCAGTTTACTCCCTATCAGTGATAGAGAACGTATGTCGAGGTAGGCGTGTACGGTGGGCGCCTATAAAAGCAGAGCTCGTTTAGTGAACCGTCAGATCGCCTGGAGCAATTCCACAACACTTTTGTCTTATACTTGGATCCGCactctcttccgcatcgctgtctgcgagggccagctgttgggctcgcggttgaggacaaactcttcgcggtattccagtactcttggatcggaaacccgtcggcctccgaacaggtactccgccgccgagggacctgagcgagtccgcatcgaccggatcggaaaacctctcgagaaaggcgtctaaccagtcacagtcgcaatgggctccagtgagcaggaactgaaagccattgtcaaagatcttggttgtgggccatattttttgggcacctatgacaagcgctttccaggctttgtttctccacacaagctcgcctgcgccatagtcaatacggccggtcgcgagactgggggcgtacactggatggcctttgcctggaacccgcactcaaaaacatgctacctctttgagccctttggcttttctgaccagcgactcaagcaggtttaccagtttgagtacgagtcactcctgcgccgtagcgccattgcttcttcccccgaccgctgtataacgctggaaaagtccacccaaagcgtacaggggcccaactcggccgcctgtggactattctgctgcatgtttctccacgcctttgccaactggccccaaactcccatggatcacaaccccaccatgaaccttattaccggggtacccaactccatgctcaacagtccccaggtacagcccaccctgcgtcgcaaccaggaacagctctacagcttcctggagcgccactcgccctacttccgcagccacagtgcgcagattaggagcgccacttctttttgtcacttgaaaaacatgtaaGCGCCGGCTCTAGATCGCGAACGCGTGAATTCTACCGGGTAGGGGAGGCGCTTTTCCCAAGGCAGTCTGGAGCATGCGCTTTAGCAGCCCCGCTGGGCACTTGGCGCTACACAAGTGGCCTCTGGCCTCGCACACATTCCACATCCACCGGTAGGCGCCAACCGGCTCCGTTCTTTGGTGGCCCCTTCGCGCCACCTTCTACTCCTCCCCTAGTCAGGAAGTTCCCCCCCGCCCCGCAGCTCGCGTCGTGCAGGACGTGACAAATGGAAGTAGCACGTCTCACTAGTCTCGTGCAGATGGACAGCACCGCTGAGCAATGGAAGCGGGTAGGCCTTTGGGGCAGCGGCCAATAGCAGCTTTGCTCCTTCGCTTTCTGGGCTCAGAGGCTGGGAAGGGGTGGGTCCGGGGGCGGGCTCAGGGGCGGGCTCAGGGGCGGGGCGGGCGCCCGAAGGTCCTCCGGAGGCCCGGCATTCTGCACGCTTCAAAAGCGCACGTCTGCCGCGCTGTTCTCCTCTTCCTCATCTCCGGGCCTTTCGACCTGCAGCCCAAGCTTACCATGACCGAGTACAAGCCCACGGTGCGCCTCGCCACCCGCGACGACGTCCCCAGGGCCGTACGCACCCTCGCCGCCGCGTTCGCCGACTACCCCGCCACGCGCCACACCGTCGATCCGGACCGCCACATCGAGCGGGTCACCGAGCTGCAAGAACTCTTCCTCACGCGCGTCGGGCTCGACATCGGCAAGGTGTGGGTCGCGGACGACGGCGCCGCGGTGGCGGTCTGGACCACGCCGGAGAGCGTCGAAGCGGGGGCGGTGTTCGCCGAGATCGGCCCGCGCATGGCCGAGTTGAGCGGTTCCCGGCTGGCCGCGCAGCAACAGATGGAAGGCCTCCTGGCGCCGCACCGGCCCAAGGAGCCCGCGTGGTTCCTGGCCACCGTCGGCGTCTCGCCCGACCACCAGGGCAAGGGTCTGGGCAGCGCCGTCGTGCTCCCCGGAGTGGAGGCGGCCGAGCGCGCCGGGGTGCCCGCCTTCCTGGAGACCTCCGCGCCCCGCAACCTCCCCTTCTACGAGCGGCTCGGCTTCACCGTCACCGCCGACGTCGAGGTGCCCGAAGGACCGCGCACCTGGTGCATGACCCGCAAGCCCGGTGCCTGACGGGGCGCGTCTGGAACAATCAACCTCTGGATTACAAAATTTGTGAAAGATTGACTGGTATTCTTAACTATGTTGCTCCTTTTACGCTATGTGGATACGCTGCTTTAATGCCTTTGTATCATGCTATTGCTTCCCGTATGGCTTTCATTTTCTCCTCCTTGTATAAATCCTGGTTGCTGTCTCTTTATGAGGAGTTGTGGCCCGTTGTCAGGCAACGTGGCGTGGTGTGCACTGTGTTTGCTGACGCAACCCCCACTGGTTGGGGCATTGCCACCACCTGTCAGCTCCTTTCCGGGACTTTCGCTTTCCCCCTCCCTATTGCCACGGCGGAACTCATCGCCGCCTGCCTTGCCCGCTGCTGGACAGGGGCTCGGCTGTTGGGCACTGACAATTCCGTGGTGTTGTCGGGGAAGCTGACGTCCTTTCCATGGCTGCTCGCCTGTGTTGCCACCTGGATTCTGCGCGGGACGTCCTTCTGCTACGTCCCTTCGGCCCTCAATCCAGCGGACCTTCCTTCCCGCGGCCTGCTGCCGGCTCTGCGGCCTCTTCCGCGTCTTCGCCTTCGCCCTCAGACGAGTCGGATCTCCCTTTGGGCCGCCTCCCCGCCTGGAATTAATTCTGCAGTCGAGACCTAGAAAAACATGGAGCAATCACAAGTAGCAATACAGCAGCTACCAATGCTGATTGTGCCTGGCTAGAAGCACAAGAGGAGGAGGAGGTGGGTTTTTCCAGTCACACCTCAGGTACCTTTAAGACCAATGACTTACAAGGCAGCTGTAGATCTTAGCCACTTTTTAAAAGAAAAGAGGGGACTGGAAGGGCTAATTCACTCCCAACGAAGACAAGATATCCTTGATCTGTGGATCTACCACACACAAGGCTACTTCCCTGATTAGCAGAACTACACACCAGGGCCAGGGGTCAGATATCCACTGACCTTTGGATGGTGCTACAAGCTAGTACCAGTTGAGCCAGATAAGGTAGAAGAGGCCAATAAAGGAGAGAACACCAGCTTGTTACACCCTGTGAGCCTGCATGGGATGGATGACCCGGAGAGAGAAGTGTTAGAGTGGAGGTTTGACAGCCGCCTAGCATTTCATCACGTGGCCCGAGAGCTGCATCCGGAGTACTTCAAGAACTGCTGATATCGAGCTTGCTACAAGGGACTTTCCGCTGGGGACTTTCCAGGGAGGCGTGGCCTGGGCGGGACTGGGGAGTGGCGAGCCCTCAGATCCTGCATATAAGCAGCTGCTTTTTGCCTGTACTGGGTCTCTCTGGTTAGACCAGATCTGAGCCTGGGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGGGAACCCACTGCTTAAGCCTCAATAAAGCTTGCCTTGAGTGCTTCAAGTAGTGTGTGCCCGTCTGTTGTGTGACTCTGGTAACTAGAGATCCCTCAGACCCTTTTAGTCAGTGTGGAAAATCTCTAGCAGTAGTAGTTCATGTCATCTTATTATTCAGTATTTATAACTTGCAAAGAAATGAATATCAGAGAGTGAGAGGCCTTGACATTGCTAGCGTTTTACCGTCGACCTCTAGCTAGAGCTTGGCGTAATCATGGTCATAGCTGTTTCCTGTGTGAAATTGTTATCCGCTCACAATTCCACACAACATACGAGCCGGAAGCATAAAGTGTAAAGCCTGGGGTGCCTAATGAGTGAGCTAACTCACATTAATTGCGTTGCGCTCACTGCCCGCTTTCCAGTCGGGAAACCTGTCGTGCCAGCTGCATTAATGAATCGGCCAACGCGCGGGGAGAGGCGGTTTGCGTATTGGGCGCTCTTCCGCTTCCTCGCTCACTGACTCGCTGCGCTCGGTCGTTCGGCTGCGGCGAGCGGTATCAGCTCACTCAAAGGCGGTAATACGGTTATCCACAGAATCAGGGGATAACGCAGGAAAGAACATGTGAGCAAAAGGCCAGCAAAAGGCCAGGAACCGTAAAAAGGCCGCGTTGCTGGCGTTTTTCCATAGGCTCCGCCCCCCTGACGAGCATCACAAAAATCGACGCTCAAGTCAGAGGTGGCGAAACCCGACAGGACTATAAAGATACCAGGCGTTTCCCCCTGGAAGCTCCCTCGTGCGCTCTCCTGTTCCGACCCTGCCGCTTACCGGATACCTGTCCGCCTTTCTCCCTTCGGGAAGCGTGGCGCTTTCTCATAGCTCACGCTGTAGGTATCTCAGTTCGGTGTAGGTCGTTCGCTCCAAGCTGGGCTGTGTGCACGAACCCCCCGTTCAGCCCGACCGCTGCGCCTTATCCGGTAACTATCGTCTTGAGTCCAACCCGGTAAGACACGACTTATCGCCACTGGCAGCAGCCACTGGTAACAGGATTAGCAGAGCGAGGTATGTAGGCGGTGCTACAGAGTTCTTGAAGTGGTGGCCTAACTACGGCTACACTAGAAGAACAGTATTTGGTATCTGCGCTCTGCTGAAGCCAGTTACCTTCGGAAAAAGAGTTGGTAGCTCTTGATCCGGCAAACAAACCACCGCTGGTAGCGGTTTTTTTGTTTGCAAGCAGCAGATTACGCGCAGAAAAAAAGGATCTCAAGAAGATCCTTTGATCTTTTCTACGGGGTCTGACGCTCAGTGGAACGAAAACTCACGTTAAGGGATTTTGGTCATGAGATTATCAAAAAGGATCTTCACCTAGATCCTTTTAAATTAAAAATGAAGTTTTAAATCAATCTAAAGTATATATGAGTAAACTTGGTCTGACAGTTACCAATGCTTAATCAGTGAGGCACCTATCTCAGCGATCTGTCTATTTCGTTCATCCATAGTTGCCTGACTCCCCGTCGTGTAGATAACTACGATACGGGAGGGCTTACCATCTGGCCCCAGTGCTGCAATGATACCGCGAGACCCACGCTCACCGGCTCCAGATTTATCAGCAATAAACCAGCCAGCCGGAAGGGCCGAGCGCAGAAGTGGTCCTGCAACTTTATCCGCCTCCATCCAGTCTATTAATTGTTGCCGGGAAGCTAGAGTAAGTAGTTCGCCAGTTAATAGTTTGCGCAACGTTGTTGCCATTGCTACAGGCATCGTGGTGTCACGCTCGTCGTTTGGTATGGCTTCATTCAGCTCCGGTTCCCAACGATCAAGGCGAGTTACATGATCCCCCATGTTGTGCAAAAAAGCGGTTAGCTCCTTCGGTCCTCCGATCGTTGTCAGAAGTAAGTTGGCCGCAGTGTTATCACTCATGGTTATGGCAGCACTGCATAATTCTCTTACTGTCATGCCATCCGTAAGATGCTTTTCGTAAGTTGGCCGCAGTGTTATCACTCATGGTTATGGCAGCACTGCATAATTCTCTTACTGTCATGCCATCCGTAAGATGCTTTTCTGTGACTGGTGAGTACTCAACCAAGTCATTCTGAGAATAGTGTATGCGGCGACCGAGTTGCTCTTGCCCGGCGTCAATACGGGATAATACCGCGCCACATAGCAGAACTTTAAAAGTGCTCATCATTGGAAAACGTTCTTCGGGGCGAAAACTCTCAAGGATCTTACCGCTGTTGAGATCCAGTTCGATGTAACCCACTCGTGCACCCAACTGATCTTCAGCATCTTTTACTTTCACCAGCGTTTCTGGGTGAGCAAAAACAGGAAGGCAAAATGCCGCAAAAAAGGGAATAAGGGCGACACGGAAATGTTGAATACTCATACTCTTCCTTTTTCAATATTATTGAAGCATTTATCAGGGTTATTGTCTCATGAGCGGATACATATTTGAATGTATTTAGAAAAATAAACAAATAGGGGTTCCGCGCACATTTCCCCGAAAAGTGCCACCTGACGTCGACGGATCGGGAGATCAACTTGTTTATTGCAGCTTATAATGGTTACAAATAAAGCAATAGCATCACAAATTTCACAAATAAAGCATTTTTTTCACTGCATTCTAGTTGTGGTTTGTCCAAACTCATCAATGTATCTTATCATGTCTGGATCAACTGGATAACTCAAGCTAACCAAAATCATCCCAAACTTCCCACCCCATACCCTATTACCACTGCCAATTACCTAGTGGTTTCATTTACTCTAAACCTGTGATTCCTCTGAATTATTTTCATTTTAAAGAAATTGTATTTGTTAAATATGTACTACAAACTTAGTAGTTTTTAAAGAAATTGTATTTGTTAAATATGTA CTACAAACTTAGTAGT

CFP.ΔPol.AProt Adenovirus (SEQ ID NO: 35):

This vector served as a control in the protease selection experiments.

CATCATCAATAATATACCTTATTTTGGATTGAAGCCAATATGATAATGAGGGGGTGGAGTTTGTGACGTGGCGCGGGGCGTGGGAACGGGGCGGGTGACGTAGTAGTGTGGCGGAAGTGTGATGTTGCAAGTGTGGCGGAACACATGTAAGCGACGGATGTGGCAAAAGTGACGTTTTTGGTGTGCGCCGGTGTACACAGGAAGTGACAATTTTCGCGCGGTTTTAGGCGGATGTTGTAGTAAATTTGGGCGTAACCGAGTAAGATTTGGCCATTTTCGCGGGAAAACTGAATAAGAGGAAGTGAAATCTGAATAATTTTGTGTTACTCATAGCGCGTAATATTTGTCTAGGGCCGCGGGGACTTTGACCGTTTACGTGGAGACTCGCCCAGGTGTTTTTCTCAGGTGTTTTCCGCGTTCCGGGTCAAAGTTGGCGTTTTATTATTATAGTCAGTCGAAGCTTGGATCCGGTACCTCTAGAATTCTCGAGCGGCCGCTAGCGACATCGGATCTCCCGATCCCCTATGGTGCACTCTCAGTACAATCTGCTCTGATGCCGCATAGTTAAGCCAGTATCTGCTCCCTGCTTGTGTGTTGGAGGTCGCTGAGTAGTGCGCGAGCAAAATTTAAGCTACAACAAGGCAAGGCTTGACCGACAATTGCATGAAGAATCTGCTTAGGGTTAGGCGTTTTGCGCTGCTTCGCGATGTACGGGCCAGATATACGCGTTGACATTGATTATTGACTAGTTATTAATAGTAATCAATTACGGGGTCATTAGTTCATAGCCCATATATGGAGTTCCGCGTTACATAACTTACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCTGACCGCCCAACGACCCCCGCCCATTGACGTCAATAATGACGTATGTTCCCATAGTAACGCCAATAGGGACTTTCCATTGACGTCAATGGGTGGACTATTTACGGTAAACTGCCCACTTGGCAGTACATCAAGTGTATCATATGCCAAGTACGCCCCCTATTGACGTCAATGACGGTAAATGGCCCGCCTGGCATTATGCCCAGTACATGACCTTATGGGACTTTCCTACTTGGCAGTACATCTACGTATTAGTCATCGCTATTACCATGGTGATGCGGTTTTGGCAGTACATCAATGGGCGTGGATAGCGGTTTGACTCACGGGGATTTCCAAGTCTCCACCCCATTGACGTCAATGGGAGTTTGTTTTGGCACCAAAATCAACGGGACTTTCCAAAATGTCGTAACAACTCCGCCCCATTGACGCAAATGGGCGGTAGGCGTGTACGGTGGGAGGTCTATATAAGCAGAGCTCTCTGGCTAACTAGAGAACCCACTGCTTACTGGCTTATCGAAATTAATACGACTCACTATAGGGAGACCCAAGCTGGCTAGTTAAGCTATCAACAAGTTTGTACAAAAAAGCAGGCTTTAAAGGAACCAATTCAGTCGACTGGATCCGGTACCACCatgTTCCTGAACTGCTGCCCAGGTTGCTGTATGGAGCCTGAATTCACCATGgtgagcaagggCGAGGAGCTGTTCACCGGGGTGGTGCCCATCCTGGTCGAGCTGGACGGCGACGTAAACGGCCACAAGTTCAGCGTGTCCGGCGAGGGCGAGGGCGATGCCACCTACGGCAAGCTGACCCTGAAGTTCATCTGCACCACCGGCAAGCTGCCCGTGCCCTGGCCCACCCTCGTGACCACCCTGACCTGGGGCGTGCAGTGCTTCGCCCGCTACCCCGACCACATGAAGCAGCACGACTTCTTCAAGTCCGCCATGCCCGAAGGCTACGTCCAGGAGCGCACCATCTTCTTCAAGGACGACGGCAACTACAAGACCCGCGCCGAGGTGAAGTTCGAGGGCGACACCCTGGTGAACCGCATCGAGCTGAAGGGCATCGACTTCAAGGAGGACGGCAACATCCTGGGGCACAAGCTGGAGTACAACGCCATCAGCGACAACGTCTATATCACCGCCGACAAGCAGAAGAACGGCATCAAGGCCAACTTCAAGATCCGCCACAACATCGAGGACGGCAGCGTGCAGCTCGCCGACCACTACCAGCAGAACACCCCCATCGGCGACGGCCCCGTGCTGCTGCCCGACAACCACTACCTGAGCACCCAGTCCAAGCTGAGCAAAGACCCCAACGAGAAGCGCGATCACATGGTCCTGCTGGAGTTCGTGACCGCCGCCGGGATCACTCTCGgcatggacgagctgtacaagGTCGACtatccgtacgacgtaccagactacgcaTAACCGCGGCCGCACTCGAGATATCTAGACCCAGCTTTCTTGTACAAAGTGGTTGATCTAGAGGGCCCGCGGTTCGAAGGTAAGCCTATCCCTAACCCTCTCCTCGGTCTCGATTCTACGCGTACCGGTTAGTAATGAGTTTAAACGGGGGAGGCTAACTGAAACACGGAAGGAGACAATACCGGAAGGAACCCGCGCTATGACGGCAATAAAAAGACAGAATAAAACGCACGGGTGTTGGGTCGTTTGTTCATAAACGCGGGGTTCGGTCCCAGGGCTGGCACTCTGTCGATACCCCACCGAGACCCCATTGGGGCCAATACGCCCGCGTTTCTTCCTTTTCCCCACCCCACCCCCCAAGTTCGGGTGAAGGCCCAGGGCTCGCAGCCAACGTCGGGGCGGCAGGCCCTGCCATAGCAGATCCGATTCGACAGATCACTGAAATGTGTGGGCGTGGCTTAAGGGTGGGAAAGAATATATAAGGTGGGGGTCTTATGTAGTTTTGTATCTGTTTTGCAGCAGCCGCCGCCGCCATGAGCACCAACTCGTTTGATGGAAGCATTGTGAGCTCATATTTGACAACGCGCATGCCCCCATGGGCCGGGGTGCGTCAGAATGTGATGGGCTCCAGCATTGATGGTCGCCCCGTCCTGCCCGCAAACTCTACTACCTTGACCTACGAGACCGTGTCTGGAACGCCGTTGGAGACTGCAGCCTCCGCCGCCGCTTCAGCCGCTGCAGCCACCGCCCGCGGGATTGTGACTGACTTTGCTTTCCTGAGCCCGCTTGCAAGCAGTGCAGCTTCCCGTTCATCCGCCCGCGATGACAAGTTGACGGCTCTTTTGGCACAATTGGATTCTTTGACCCGGGAACTTAATGTCGTTTCTCAGCAGCTGTTGGATCTGCGCCAGCAGGTTTCTGCCCTGAAGGCTTCCTCCCCTCCCAATGCGGTTTAAAACATAAATAAAAAACCAGACTCTGTTTGGATTTGGATCAAGCAAGTGTCTTGCTGTCTTTATTTAGGGGTTTTGCGCGCGCGGTAGGCCCGGGACCAGCGGTCTCGGTCGTTGAGGGTCCTGTGTATTTTTTCCAGGACGTGGTAAAGGTGACTCTGGATGTTCAGATACATGGGCATAAGCCCGTCTCTGGGGTGGAGGTAGCACCACTGCAGAGCTTCATGCTGCGGGGTGGTGTTGTAGATGATCCAGTCGTAGCAGGAGCGCTGGGCGTGGTGCCTAAAAATGTCTTTCAGTAGCAAGCTGATTGCCAGGGGCAGGCCCTTGGTGTAAGTGTTTACAAAGCGGTTAAGCTGGGATGGGTGCATACGTGGGGATATGAGATGCATCTTGGACTGTATTTTTAGGTTGGCTATGTTCCCAGCCATATCCCTCCGGGGATTCATGTTGTGCAGAACCACCAGCACAGTGTATCCGGTGCACTTGGGAAATTTGTCATGTAGCTTAGAAGGAAATGCGTGGAAGAACTTGGAGACGCCCTTGTGACCTCCAAGATTTTCCATGCATTCGTCCATAATGATGGCAATGGGCCCACGGGCGGCGGCCTGGGCGAAGATATTTCTGGGATCACTAACGTCATAGTTGTGTTCCAGGATGAGATCGTCATAGGCCATTTTTACAAAGCGCGGGCGGAGGGTGCCAGACTGCGGTATAATGGTTCCATCCGGCCCAGGGGCGTAGTTACCCTCACAGATTTGCATTTCCCACGCTTTGAGTTCAGATGGGGGGATCATGTCTACCTGCGGGGCGATGAAGAAAACGGTTTCCGGGGTAGGGGAGATCAGCTGGGAAGAAAGCAGGTTCCTGAGCAGCTGCGACTTACCGCAGCCGGTGGGCCCGTAAATCACACCTATTACCGGcTGCAACTGGTAGTTAAGAGAGCTGCAGCTGCCGTCATCCCTGAGCAGGGGGGCCACTTCGTTAAGCATGTCCCTGACTCGCATGTTTTCCCTGACCAAATCCGCCAGAAGGCGCTCGCCGCCCAGCGATAGCAGTTCTTGCAAGGAAGCAAAGTTTTTCAACGGTTTGAGACCGTCCGCCGTAGGCATGCTTTTGAGCGTTTGACCAAGCAGTTCCAGGCGGTCCCACAGCTCGGTCACCTGCTCTACGGCATCTCGATCCAGCATATCTCCTCGTTTCGCGGGTTGGGGCGGCTTTCGCTGTACGGCAGTAGTCGGTGCTCGTCCAGACGGGCCAGGGTCATGTCTTTCCACGGGCGCAGGGTCCTCGTCAGCGTAGTCTGGGTCACGGTGAAGGGGTGCGCTCCGGGCTGCGCGCTGGCCAGGGTGCGCTTGAGGCTGGTCCTGCTGGTGCTGAAGCGCTGCCGGTCTTCGCCCTGCGCGTCGGCCAGGTAGCATTTGACCATGGTGTCATAGTCCAGCCCCTCCGCGGCGTGGCCCTTGGCGCGCAGCTTGCCCTTGGAGGAGGCGCCGCACGAGGGGCAGTGCAGACTTTTGAGGGCGTAGAGCTTGGGCGCGAGAAATACCGATTCCGGGGAGTAGGCATCCGCGCCGCAGGCCCCGCAGACGGTCTCGCATTCCACGAGCCAGGTGAGCTCTGGCCGTTCGGGGTCAAAAACCAGGTTTCCCCCATGCTTTTTGATGCGTTTCTTACCTCTGGTTTCCATGAGCCGGTGTCCACGCTCGGTGACGAAAAGGCTGTCCGTGTCCCCGTATACAGACTTGAGAGGCCTGTCCTCGAGCGGTGTTCCGCGGTCCTCCTCGTATAGAAACTCGGACCACTCTGAGACAAAGGCTCGCGTCCAGGCCAGCACGAAGGAGGCTAAGTGGGAGGGGTAGCGGTCGTTGTCCACTAGGGGGTCCACTCGCTCCAGGGTGTGAAGACACATGTCGCCCTCTTCGGCATCAAGGAAGGTGATTGGTTTGTAGGTGTAGGCCACGTGACCGGGTGTTCCTGAAGGGGGGCTATAAAAGGGGGTGGGGGCGCGTTCGTCCTCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCTGTCTGCGAGGGCCAGCTGTTGGGGTGAGTACTCCCTCTGAAAAGCGGGCATGACTTCTGCGCTAAGATTGTCAGTTTCCAAAAACGAGGAGGATTTGATATTCACCTGGCCCGCGGTGATGCCTTTGAGGGTGGCCGCATCCATCTGGTCAGAAAAGACAATCTTTTTGTTGTCAAGCTTGGTGGCAAACGACCCGTAGAGGGCGTTGGACAGCAACTTGGCGATGGAGCGCAGGGTTTGGTTTTTGTCGCGATCGGCGCGCTCCTTGGCCGCGATGTTTAGCTGCACGTATTCGCGCGCAACGCACCGCCATTCGGGAAAGACGGTGGTGCGCTCGTCGGGCACCAGGTGCACGCGCCAACCGCGGTTGTGCAGGGTGACAAGGTCAACGCTGGTGGCTACCTCTCCGCGTAGGCGCTCGTTGGTCCAGCAGAGGCGGCCGCCCTTGCGCGAGCAGAATGGCGGTAGGGGGTCTAGCTGCGTCTCGTCCGGGGGGTCTGCGTCCACGGTAAAGACCCCGGGCAGCAGGCGCGCGTCGAAGTAGTCTATCTTGCATCCTTGCAAGTCTAGCGCCTGCTGCCATGCGCGGGCGGCAAGCGCGCGCTCGTATGGGTTGAGTGGGGGACCCCATGGCATGGGGTGGGTGAGCGCGGAGGCGTACATGCCGCAAATGTCGTAAACGTAGAGGGGCTCTCTGAGTATTCCAAGATATGTAGGGTAGCATCTTCCACCGCGGATGCTGGCGCGCACGTAATCGTATAGTTCGTGCGAGGGAGCGAGGAGGTCGGGACCGAGGTTGCTACGGGCGGGCTGCTCTGCTCGGAAGACTATCTGCCTGAAGATGGCATGTGAGTTGGATGATATGGTTGGACGCTGGAAGACGTTGAAGCTGGCGTCTGTGAGACCTACCGCGTCACGCACGAAGGAGGCGTAGGAGTCGCGCAGCTTGTTGACCAGCTCGGCGGTGACCTGCACGTCTAGGGCGCAGTAGTCCAGGGTTTCCTTGATGATGTCATACTTATCCTGTCCCTTTTTTTTCCACAGCTCGCGGTTGAGGACAAACTCTTCGCGGTCTTTCCAGTACTCTTGGATCGGAAACCCGTCGGCCTCCGAACGGTAAGAGCCTAGCATGTAGAACTGGTTGACGGCCTGGTAGGCGCAGCATCCCTTTTCTACGGGTAGCGCGTATGCCTGCGCGGCCTTCCGGAGCGAGGTGTGGGTGAGCGCAAAGGTGTCCCTGACCATGACCAGCATGAAGGGCACGAGCTGCTTCCCAAAGGCCCCCATCCAAGTATAGGTCTCTACATCGTAGGTGACAAAGAGACGCTCGGTGCGAGGATGCGAGCCGATCGGGAAGAACTGGATCTCCCGCCACCAATTGGAGGAGTGGCTATTGATGTGGTGAAAGTAGAAGTCCCTGCGACGGGCCGAACACTCGTGCTGGCTTTTGTAAAAACGTGCGCAGTACTGGCAGCGGTGCACGGGCTGTACATCCTGCACGAGGTTGACCTGACGACCGCGCACAAGGAAGCAGAGTGGGAATTTGAGCCCCTCGCCTGGCGGGTTTGGCTGGTGGTCTTCTACTTCGGCTGCTTGTCCTTGACCGTCTGGCTGCTCGAGGGGAGTTACGGTGGATCGGACCACCACGCCGCGCGAGCCCAAAGTCCAGATGTCCGCGCGCGGCGGTCGGAGCTTGATGACAACATCGCGCAGATGGGAGCTGTCCATGGTCTGGAGCTCCCGCGGCGTCAGGTCAGGCGGGAGCTCCTGCAGGTTTACCTCGCATAGACGGGTCAGGGCGCGGGCTAGATCCAGGTGATACCTAATTTCCAGGGGCTGGTTGGTGGCGGCGTCGATGGCTTGCAAGAGGCCGCATCCCCGCGGCGCGACTACGGTACCGCGCGGCGGGCGGTGGGCCGCGGGGGTGTCCTTGGATGATGCATCTAAAAGCGGTGACGCGGGCGAGCCCCCGGAGGTAGGGGGGGCTCCGGACCCGCCGGGAGAGGGGGCAGGGGCACGTCGGCGCCGCGCGCGGGCAGGAGCTGGTGCTGCGCGCGTAGGTTGCTGGCGAACGCGACGACGCGGCGGTTGATCTCCTGAATCTGGCGCCTCTGCGTGAAGACGACGGGCCCGGTGAGCTTGAaCCTGAAAGAGAGTTCGACAGAATCAATTTCGGTGTCGTTGACGGCGGCCTGGCGCAAAATCTCCTGCACGTCTCCTGAGTTGTCTTGATAGGCGATCTCGGCCATGAACTGCTCGATCTCTTCCTCCTGGAGATCTCCGCGTCCGGCTCGCTCCACGGTGGCGGCGAGGTCGTTGGAAATGCGGGCCATGAGCTGCGAGAAGGC'GTTGAGGCCTCCCTCGTTCCAGACGCGGCTGTAGACCACGCCCCCTTCGGCATCGCGGGCGCGCATGACCACCTGCGCGAGATTGAGCTCCACGTGCCGGGCGAAGACGGCGTAGTTTCGCAGGCGCTGAAAGAGGTAGTTGAGGGTGGTGGCGGTGTGTTCTGCCACGAAGAAGTACATAACCCAGCGTCGCAACGTGGATTCGTTGATATCCCCCAAGGCCTCAAGGCGCTCCATGGCCTCGTAGAAGTCCACGGCGAAGTTGAAAAACTGGGAGTTGCGCGCCGACACGGTTAACTCCTCCTCCAGAAGACGGATGAGCTCGGCGACAGTGTCGCGCACCTCGCGCTCAAAGGCTACAGGGGCCTCTTCTTCTTCTTCAATCTCCTCTTCCATAAGGGCCTCCCCTTCTTCTTCTTCTGGCGGCGGTGGGGGAGGGGGGACACGGCGGCGACGACGGCGCACCGGGAGGCGGTCGACAAAGCGCTCGATCATCTCCCCGCGGCGACGGCGCATGGTCTCGGTGACGGCGCGGCCGTTCTCGCGGGGGCGCAGTTGGAAGACGCCGCCCGTCATGTCCCGGTTATGGGTTGGCGGGGGGCTGCCATGCGGCAGGGATACGGCGCTAACGATGCATCTCAACAATTGTTGTGTAGGTACTCCGCCGCCGAGGGACCTGAGCGAGTCCGCATCGACCGGATCGGAAAACCTCTCGAGAAAGGCGTCTAACCAGTCACAGTCGCAAGGTAGGCTGAGCACCGTGGCGGGCGGCAGCGGGCGGCGGTCGGGGTTGTTTCTGGCGGAGGTGCTGCTGATGATGTAATTAAAGTAGGCGGTCTTGAGACGGCGGATGGTCGACAGAAGCACCATGTCCTTGGGTCCGGCCTGCTGAATGCGCAGGCGGTCGGCCATGCCCCAGGCTTCGTTTTGACATCGGCGCAGGTCTTTGTAGTAGTCTTGCATGAGCCTTTCTACCGGCACTTCTTCTTCTCCTTCCTCTTGTCCTGCATCTCTTGCATCTATCGCTGCGGCGGCGGCGGAGTTTGGCCGTAGGTGGCGCCCTCTTCCTCCCATGCGTGTGACCCCGAAGCCCCTCATCGGCTGAAGCAGGGCTAGGTCGGCGACAACGCGCTCGGCTAATATGGCCTGCTGCACCTGCGTGAGGGTAGACTGGAAGTCATCCATGTCCACAAAGCGGTGGTATGCGCCCGTGTTGATGGTGTAAGTGCAGTTGGCCATAACGGACCAGTTAACGGTCTGGTGACCCGGCTGCGAGAGCTCGGTGTACCTGAGACGCGAGTAAGCCCTCGAGTCAAATACGTAGTCGTTGCAAGTCCGCACCAGGTACTGGTATCCCACCAAAAAGTGCGGCGGCGGCTGGCGGTAGAGGGGCCAGCGTAGGGTGGCCGGGGCTCCGGGGGCGAGATCTTCCAACATAAGGCGATGATATCCGTAGATGTACCTGGACATCCAGGTGATGCCGGCGGCGGTGGTGGAGGCGCGCGGAAAGTCGCGGACGCGGTTCCAGATGTTGCGCAGCGGCAAAAAGTGCTCCATGGTCGGGACGCTCTGGCCGGTCAGGCGCGCGCAATCGTTGACGCTCTAGACCGTGCAAAAGGAGAGCCTGTAAGCGGGCACTCTTCCGTGGTCTGGTGGATAAATTCGCAAGGGTATCATGGCGGACGACCGGGGTTCGAGCCCCGTATCCGGCCGTCCGCCGTGATCCATGCGGTTACCGCCCGCGTGTCGAACCCAGGTGTGCGACGTCAGACAACGGGGGAGTGCTCCTTTTGGCTTCCTTCCAGGCGCGGCGGCTGCTGCGCTAGCTTTTTTGGCCACTGGCCGCGCGCAGCGTAAGCGGTTAGGCTGGAAAGCGAAAGCATTAAGTGGCTCGCTCCCTGTAGCCGGAGGGTTATTTTCCAAGGGTTGAGTCGCGGGACCCCCGGTTCGAGTCTCGGACCGGCCGGACTGCGGCGAACGGGGGTTTGCCTCCCCGTCATGCAAGACCCCGCTTGCAAATTCCTCCGGAAACAGGGACGAGCCCCTTTTTTGCTTTTCCCAGATGCATCCGGTGCTGCGGCAGATGCGCCCCCCTCCTCAGCAGCGGCAAGAGCAAGAGCAGCGGCAGACATGCAGGGCACCCTCCCCTCCTCCTACCGCGTCAGGAGGGGCGACATCCGCGGTTGACGCGGCAGCAGATGGTGATTACGAACCCCCGCGGCGCCGGGCCCGGCACTACCTGGACTTGGAGGAGGGCGAGGGCCTGGCGCGGCTAGGAGCGCCCTCTCCTGAGCGGcACCCAAGGGTGCAGCTGAAGCGTGATACGCGTGAGGCGTACGTGCCGCGGCAGAACCTGTTTCGCGACCGCGAGGGAGAGGAGCCCGAGGAGATGCGGGATCGAAAGTTCCACGCAGGGCGCGAGCTGCGGCATGGCCTGAATCGCGAGCGGTTGCTGCGCGAGGAGGACTTTGAGCCCGACGCGCGAACCGGGATTAGTCCCGCGCGCGCACACGTGGCGGCCGCCGACCTGGTAACCGCATACGAGCAGACGGTGAACCAGGAGATTAACTTTCAAAAAAGCTTTAACAACCACGTGCGTACGCTTGTGGCGCGCGAGGAGGTGGCTATAGGACTGATGCATCTGTGGGACTTTGTAAGCGCGCTGGAGCAAAACCCAAATAGCAAGCCGCTCATGGCGCAGCTGTTCCTTATAGTGCAGCACAGCAGGGACAACGAGGCATTCAGGGATGCGCTGCTAAACATAGTAGAGCCCGAGGGCCGCTGGCTGCTCGATTTGATAAACATCCTGCAGAGCATAGTGGTGCAGGAGCGCAGCTTGAGCCTGGCTGACAAGGTGGCCGCCATCAACTATTCCATGCTTAGCCTGGGCAAGTTTTACGCCCGCAAGATATACCATACCCCTTACGTTCCCATAGACAAGGAGGTAAAGATCGAGGGGTTCTACATGCGCATGGCGCTGAAGGTGCTTACCTTGAGCGACGACCTGGGCGTTTATCGCAACGAGCGCATCCACAAGGCCGTGAGCGTGAGCCGGCGGCGCGAGCTCAGCGACCGCGAGCTGATGCACAGCCTGCAAAGGGCCCTGGCTGGCACGGGCAGCGGCGATAGAGAGGCCGAGTCCTACTTTGACGCGGGCGCTGACCTGCGCTGGGCCCCAAGCCGACGCGCCCTGGAGGCAGCTGGGGCCGGACCTGGGCTGGCGGTGGCACCCGCGCGCGCTGGCAACGTCGGCGGCGTGGAGGAATATGACGAGGACGATGAGTACGAGCCAGAGGACGGCGAGTACTAAGCGGTGATGTTTCTGATCAGATGATGCAAGACGCAACGGACCCGGCGGTGCGGGCGGCGCTGCAGAGCCAGCCGTCCGGCCTTAACTCCACGGACGACTGGCGCCAGGTCATGGACCGCATCATGTCGCTGACTGCGCGCAATCCTGACGCGTTCCGGCAGCAGCCGCAGGCCAACCGGCTCTCCGCAATTCTGGAAGCGGTGGTCCCGGCGCGCGCAAACCCCACGCACGAGAAGGTGCTGGCGATCGTAAACGCGCTGGCCGAAAACAGGGCCATCCGGCCCGACGAGGCCGGCCTGGTCTACGACGCGCTGCTTCAGCGCGTGGCTCGTTACAACAGCGGCAACGTGCAGACCAACCTGGACCGGCTGGTGGGGGATGTGCGCGAGGCCGTGGCGCAGCGTGAGCGCGCGCAGCAGCAGGGCAACCTGGGCTCCATGGTTGCACTAAACGCCTTCCTGAGTACACAGCCCGCCAACGTGCCGCGGGGACAGGAGGACTACACCAACTTTGTGAGCGCACTGCGGCTAATGGTGACTGAGACACCGCAAAGTGAGGTGTACCAGTCTGGGCCAGACTATTTTTTCCAGACCAGTAGACAAGGCCTGCAGACCGTAAACCTGAGCCAGGCTTTCAAAAACTTGCAGGGGCTGTGGGGGGTGCGGGCTCCCACAGGCGACCGCGCGACCGTGTCTAGCTTGCTGACGCCCAACTCGCGCCTGTTGCTGCTGCTAATAGCGCCCTTCACGGACAGTGGCAGCGTGTCCCGGGACACATACCTAGGTCACTTGCTGACACTGTACCGCGAGGCCATAGGTCAGGCGCATGTGGACGAGCATACTTTCCAGGAGATTACAAGTGTCAGCCGCGCGCTGGGGCAGGAGGACACGGGCAGCCTGGAGGCAACCCTAAACTACCTGCTGACCAACCGGCGGCAGAAGATCCCCTCGTTGCACAGTTTAAACAGCGAGGAGGAGCGCATTTTGCGCTACGTGCAGCAGAGCGTGAGCCTTAACCTGATGCGCGACGGGGTAACGCCCAGCGTGGCGCTGGACATGACCGCGCGCAACATGGAACCGGGCATGTATGCCTCAAACCGGCCGTTTATCAACCGCCTAATGGACTACTTGCATCGCGCGGCCGCCGTGAACCCCGAGTATTTCACCAATGCCATCTTGAACCCGCACTGGCTACCGCCCCCTGGTTTCTACACCGGGGGATTCGAGGTGCCCGAGGGTAACGATGGATTCCTCTGGGACGACATAGACGACAGCGTGTTTTCCCCGCAACCGCAGACCCTGCTAGAGTTGCAACAGCGCGAGCAGGCAGAGGCGGCGCTGCGAAAGGAAAGCTTCCGCAGGCCAAGCAGCTTGTCCGATCTAGGCGCTGCGGCCCCGCGGTCAGATGCTAGTAGCCCATTTCCAAGCTTGATAGGGTCTCTTACCAGCACTCGCACCACCCGCCCGCGCCTGCTGGGCGAGGAGGAGTACCTAAACAACTCGCTGCTGCAGCCGCAGCGCGAAAAAAACCTGCCTCCGGCATTTCCCAACAACGGGATAGAGAGCCTAGTGGACAAGATGAGTAGATGGAAGACGTACGCGCAGGAGCACAGGGACGTGCCAGGCCCGCGCCCGCCCACCCGTCGTCAAAGGCACGACCGTCAGCGGGGTCTGGTGTGGGAGGACGATGACTCGGCAGACGACAGCAGCGTCCTGGATTTGGGAGGGAGTGGCAACCCGTTTGCGCACCTTCGCCCCAGGCTGGGGAGAATGTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAaGCATGATGCAAAATAAAAAACTCACCAAGGCCATGGCACCGAGCGTTGGTTTTCTTGTATTCCCCTTAGTATGCGGCGCGCGGCGATGTATGAGGAAGGTCCTCCTCCCTCCTACGAGAGTGTGGTGAGCGCGGCGCCAGTGGCGGCGGCGCTGGGTTCTCCCTTCGATGCTCCCCTGGACCCGCCGTTTGTGCCTCCGCGGTACCTGCGGCCTACCGGGGGGAGAAACAGCATCCGTTACTCTGAGTTGGCACCCCTATTCGACACCACCCGTGTGTACCTGGTGGACAACAAGTCAACGGATGTGGCATCCCTGAACTACCAGAACGACCACAGCAACTTTCTGACCACGGTCATTCAAAACAATGACTACAGCCCGGGGGAGGCAAGCACACAGACCATCAATCTTGACGACCGGTCGCACTGGGGCGGCGACCTGAAAACCATCCTGCATACCAACATGCCAAATGTGAACGAGTTCATGTTTACCAATAAGTTTAAGGCGCGGGTGATGGTGTCGCGCTTGCCTACTAAGGACAATCAGGTGGAGCTGAAATACGAGTGGGTGGAGTTCACGCTGCCCGAGGGCAACTACTCCGAGACCATGACCATAGACCTTATGAACAACGCGATCGTGGAGCACTACTTGAAAGTGGGCAGACAGAACGGGGTTCTGGAAAGCGACATCGGGGTAAAGTTTGACACCCGCAACTTCAGACTGGGGTTTGACCCCGTCACTGGTCTTGTCATGCCTGGGGTATATACAAACGAAGCCTTCCATCCAGACATCATTTTGCTGCCAGGATGCGGGGTGGACTTCACCCACAGCCGCCTGAGCAACTTGTTGGGCATCCGCAAGCGGCAACCCTTCCAGGAGGGCTTTAGGATCACCTACGATGATCTGGAGGGTGGTAACATTCCCGCACTGTTGGATGTGGACGCCTACCAGGCGAGCTTGAAAGATGACACCGAACAGGGCGGGGGTGGCGCAGGCGGCAGCAACAGCAGTGGCAGCGGCGCGGAAGAGAACTCCAACGCGGCAGCCGCGGCAATGCAGCCGGTGGAGGACATGAACGATCATGCCATTCGCGGCGACACCTTTGCCACACGGGCTGAGGAGAAGCGCGCTGAGGCCGAAGCAGCGGCCGAAGCTGCCGCCCCCGCTGCGCAACCCGAGGTCGAGAAGCCTCAGAAGAAACCGGTGATCAAACCCCTGACAGAGGACAGCAAGAAACGCAGTTACAACCTAATAAGCAATGACAGCACCTTCACCCAGTACCGCAGCTGGTACCTTGCATACAACTACGGCGACCCTCAGACCGGAATCCGCTCATGGACCCTGCTTTGCACTCCTGACGTAACCTGCGGCTCGGAGCAGGTCTACTGGTCGTTGCCAGACATGATGCAAGACCCCGTGACCTTCCGCTCCACGCGCCAGATCAGCAACTTTCCGGTGGTGGGCGCCGAGCTGTTGCCCGTGCACTCCAAGAGCTTCTACAACGACCAGGCCGTCTACTCCCAACTCATCCGCCAGTTTACCTCTCTGACCCACGTGTTCAATCGCTTTCCCGAGAACCAGATTTTGGCGCGCCCGCCAGCCCCCACCATCACCACCGTCAGTGAAAACGTTCCTGCTCTCACAGATCACGGGACGCTACCGCTGCGCAACAGCATCGGAGGAGTCCAGCGAGTGACCATTACTGACGCCAGACGCCGCACCTGCCCCTACGTTTACAAGGCCCTGGGCATAGTCTCGCCGCGCGTCCTATCGAGCCGCACTTTTTGAGCAAGCATGTCCATCCTTATATCGCCCAGCAATAACACAGGCTGGGGCCTGCGCTTCCCAAGCAAGATGTTTGGCGGGGCCAAGAAGCGCTCCGACCAACACCCAGTGCGCGTGCGCGGGCACTACCGCGCGCCCTGGGGCGCGCACAAACGCGGCCGCACTGGGCGCACCACCGTCGATGACGCCATCGACGCGGTGGTGGAGGAGGCGCGCAACTACACGCCCACGCCGCCACCAGTGTCCACAGTGGACGCGGCCATTCAGACCGTGGTGCGCGGAGCCCGGCGCTATGCTAAAATGAAGAGACGGCGGAGGCGCGTAGCACGTCGCCACCGCCGCCGACCCGGCACTGCCGCCCAACGCGCGGCGGCGGCCCTGCTTAACCGCGCACGTCGCACCGGCCGACGGGCGGCCATGCGGGCCGCTCGAAGGCTGGCCGCGGGTATTGTCACTGTGCCCCCCAGGTCCAGGCGACGAGCGGCCGCCGCAGCAGCCGCGGCCATTAGT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ACAAAAGCGAAGATCAGCTTCGGCGCACGCTGGAAGACGCGGAGGCTCTCTTCAGTAAATACTGCGCGCTGACTCTTAAGGACTAGTTTCGCGCCCTTTCTCAAATTTAAGCGCGAAAACTACGTCATCTCCAGCGGCCACACCCGGCGCCAGCACCTGTtGTCAGCGCCATTATGAGCAAGGAAATTCCCACGCCCTACATGTGGAGTTACCAGCCACAAATGGGACTTGCGGCTGGAGCTGCCCAAGACTACTCAACCCGAATAAACTACATGAGCGCGGGACCCCACATGATATCCCGGGTCAACGGAATaCGCGCCCACCGAAACCGAATTCTCcTGGAACAGGCGGCTATTACCACCACACCTCGTAATAACCTTAATCCCCGTAGTTGGCCCGCTGCCCTGGTGTACCAGGAAAGTCCCGCTCCCACCACTGTGGTACTTCCCAGAGACGCCCAGGCCGAAGTTCAGATGACTAACTCAGGGGCGCAGCTTGCGGGCGGCTTTCGTCACAGGGTGCGGTCGCCCGGGCAGGGTATAACTCACCTGACAATCAGAGGGCGAGGTATTCAGCTCAACGACGAGTCGGTGAGCTCCTCGCTTGGTCTCCGTCCGGACGGGACATTTCAGATCGGCGGCGCCGGCCGctCTTCATTCACGCCTCGTCAGGCAATCCTAACTCTGCAGACCTCGTCCTCTGAGCCGCGCTCTGGAGGCATTGGAACTCTGCAATTTATTGAGGAGTTTGTGCCATCGGTCTACTTTAACCCCTTCTCGGGACCTCCCGGCCACTATCCGGATCAATTTATTCCTAACTTTGACGCGGTAAAGGACTCGGCGGACGGCTACGACTGAATGTTAAGTGGAGAGGCAGAGCAACTGCGCCTGAAACACCTGGTCCACTGTCGCCGCCACAAGTGCTTTGCCCGCGACTCCGGTGAGTTTTGCTACTTTGAATTGCCCGAGGATCATATCGAGGGCCCGGCGCACGGCGTCCGGCTTACCGCCCAGGGAGAGCTTGCCCGTAGCCTGATTCGGGAGTTTACCCAGCGCCCCCTGCTAGTTGAGCGGGACAGGGGACCCTGTGTTCTCACTGTGATTTGCAACTGTCCTAACCcTGGATTACATCAAGATCTTTGTTGCCATCTCTGTGCTGAGTATAATAAATACAGAAATTAAAATATACTGGGGCTCCTATCGCCATCCTGTAAACGCCACCGTCTTCACCCGCCCAAGCAAACCAAGGCGAACCTTACCTGGTACTTTTAACATCTCTCCCTCTGTGATTTACAACAGTTTCAACCCAGACGGAGTGAGTCTACGAGAGAACCTCTCCGAGCTCAGCTACTCCATCAGAAAAAACACCACCCTCCTTACCTGCCGGGAACGTACGAGTGCGTCACCGGCCGCTGCACCACACCTACCGCCTGACCGTAAACCAGACTTTTTCCGGACAGACCTCAATAACTCTGTTTACCAGAACAGGAGGTGAGCTTAGAAAACCCTTAGGGTATTAGGCCAAAGGCGCAGCTACTGTGGGGTTTATGAACAATTCAAGCAACTCTACGGGCTATTCTAATTCAGGTTTCTCTAGAAATGGACGGAATTATTACAGAGCAGCGCCTGCTAGAAAGACGCAGGGCAGCGGCCGAGCAACAGCGCATGAATCAAGAGCTCCAAGACATGGTTAACTTGCACCAGTGCAAAAGGGGTATCTTTTGTCTGGTAAAGCAGGCCAAAGTCACCTACGACAGTAATACCACCGGACACCGCCTTAGCTACAAGTTGCCAACCAAGCGTCAGAAATTGGTGGTCATGGTGGGAGAAAAGCCCATTACCATAACTCAGCACTCGGTAGAAACCGAAGGCTGCATTCACTCACCTTGTCAAGGACCTGAGGATCTCTGCACCCTTATTAAGACCCTGTGCGGTCTCAAAGATCTTATTCCCTTTAACTAATAAAAAAAAATAATAAAGCATCACTTACTTAAAATCAGTTAGCAAATTTCTGTCCAGTTTATTCAGCAGCACCTCCTTGCCCTCCTCCCAGCTCTGGTATTGCAGCTTCCTCCTGGCTGCAAACTTTCTCCACAATCTAAATGGAATGTCAGTTTCCTCCTGTTCCTGTCCATCCGCACCCACTATCTTCATGTTGTTGCAGATGAAGCGCGCAAGACCGTCTGAAGATACCTTCAACCCCGTGTATCCATATGACACGGAAACCGGTCCTCCAACTGTGCCTTTTCTTACTCCTCCCTTTGTATCCCCCAATGGGTTTCAAGAGAGTCCCCCTGGGGTACTCTCTTTGCGCCTATCCGAACCTCTAGTTACCTCCAATGGCATGCTTGCGCTCAAAATGGGCAACGGCCTCTCTCTGGACGAGGCCGGCAACCTTACCTCCCAAAATGTAACCACTGTGAGCCCACCTCTCAAAAAAACCAAGTCAAACATAAACCTGGAAATATCTGCACCCCTCACAGTTACCTCAGAAGCCCTAACTGTGGCTGCCGCCGCACCTCTAATGGTCGCGGGCAACACACTCACCATGCAATCACAGGCCCCGCTAACCGTGCACGACTCCAAACTTAGCATTGCCACCCAAGGACCCCTCACAGTGTCAGAAGGAAAGCTAGCCCTGCAAACATCAGGCCCCCTCACCACCACCGATAGCAGTACCCTTACTATCACTGCCTCACCCCCTCTAACTACTGCCACTGGTAGCTTGGGCATTGACTTGAAAGAGCCCATTTATACACAAAATGGAAAACTAGGACTAAAGTACGGGGCTCCTTTGCATGTAACAGACGACCTAAACACTTTGACCGTAGCAACTGGTCCAGGTGTGACTATTAATAATACTTCCTTGCAAACTAAAGTTACTGGAGCCTTGGGTTTTGATTCACAAGGCAATATGCAACTTAATGTAGCAGGAGGACTAAGGATTGATTCTCAAAACAGACGCCTTATACTTGATGTTAGTTATCCGTTTGATGCTCAAAACCAACTAAATCTAAGACTAGGACAGGGCCCTCTTTTTATAAACTCAGCCCACAACTTGGATATTAACTACAACAAAGGCCTTTACTTGTTTACAGCTTCAAACAATTCCAAAAAGCTTGAGGTTAACCTAAGCACTGCCAAGGGGTTGATGTTTGACGCTACAGCCATAGCCATTAATGCAGGAGATGGGCTTGAATTTGGTTCACCTAATGCACCAAACACAAATCCCCTCAAAACAAAAATTGGCCATGGCCTAGAATTTGATTCAAACAAGGCTATGGTTCCTAAACTAGGAACTGGCCTTAGTTTTGACAGCACAGGTGCCATTACAGTAGGAAACAAAAATAATGATAAGCTAACTTTGTGGACCACACCAGCTCCATCTCCTAACTGTAGACTAAATGCAGAGAAAGATGCTAAACTCACTTTGGTCTTAACAAAATGTGGCAGTCAAATACTTGCTACAGTTTCAGTTTTGGCTGTTAAAGGCAGTTTGGCTCCAATATCTGGAACAGTTCAAAGTGCTCATCTTATTATAAGATTTGACGAAAATGGAGTGCTACTAAACAATTCCTTCCTGGACCCAGAATATTGGAACTTTAGAAATGGAGATCTTACTGAAGGCACAGCCTATACAAACGCTGTTGGATTTATGCCTAACCTATCAGCTTATCCAAAATCTCACGGTAAAACTGCCAAAAGTAACATTGTCAGTCAAGTTTACTTAAACGGAGACAAAACTAAACCTGTAACACTAACCATTACACTAAACGGTACACAGGAAACAGGAGACACAACTCCAAGTGCATACTCTATGTCATTTTCATGGGACTGGTCTGGCCACAACTACATTAATGAAATATTTGCCACATCCTCTTACACTTTTTCATACATTGCCCAAGAATAAAGAATCGTTTGTGTTATGTTTCAACGTGTTTATTTTTCAATTGCAGAAAATTTCGAATCATTTTTCATTCAGTAGTATAGCCCCACCACCACATAGCTTATACAGATCACCGTACCTTAATCAAACTCACAGAACCCTAGTATTCAACCTGCCACCTCCCTCCCAACACACAGAGTACACAGTCCTTTCTCCCCGGCTGGCCTTAAAAAGCATCATATCATGGGTAACAGACATATTCTTAGGTGTTATATTCCACACGGTTTCCTGTCGAGCCAAACGCTCATCAGTGATATTAATAAACTCCCCGGGCAGCTCACTTAAGTTCATGTCGCTGTCCAGCTGCTGAGCCACAGGCTGCTGTCCAACTTGCGGTTGCTTAACGGGCGGCGAAGGAGAAGTCCACGCCTACATGGGGGTAGAGTCATAATCGTGCATCAGGATAGGGCGGTGGTGCTGCAGCAGCGCGCGAATAAACTGCTGCCGCCGCCGCTCCGTCCTGCAGGAATACAACATGGCAGTGGTCTCCTCAGCGATGATTCGCACCGCCCGCAGCATAAGGCGCCTTGTCCTCCGGGCACAGCAGCGCACCCTGATCTCACTTAAATCAGCACAGTAACTGCAGCACAGCACCACAATATTGTTCAAAATCCCACAGTGCAAGGCGCTGTATCCAAAGCTCATGGCGGGGACCACAGAACCCACGTGGCCATCATACCACAAGCGCAGGTAGATTAAGTGGCGACCCCTCATAAACACGCTGGACATAAACATTACCTCTTTTGGCATGTTGTAATTCACCACCTCCCGGTACCATATAAACCTCTGATTAAACATGGCGCCATCCACCACCATCCTAAACCAGCTGGCCAAAACCTGCCCGCCGGCTATACACTGCAGGGAACCGGGACTGGAACAATGACAGTGGAGAGCCCAGGACTCGTAACCATGGATCATCATGCTCGTCATGATATCAATGTTGGCACAACACAGGCACACGTGCATACACTTCCTCAGGATTACAAGCTCCTCCCGCGTTAGAACCATATCCCAGGGAACAACCCATTCCTGAATCAGCGTAAATCCCACACTGCAGGGAAGACCTCGCACGTAACTCACGTTGTGCATTGTCAAAGTGTTACATTCGGGCAGCAGCGGATGATCCTCCAGTATGGTAGCGCGGGTTTCTGTCTCAAAAGGAGGTAGACGATCCCTACTGTACGGAGTGCGCCGAGACAACCGAGATCGTGTTGGTCGTAGTGTCATGCCAAATGGAACGCCGGACGTAGTCATATTTCCTGAAGCAAAACCAGGTGCGGGCGTGACAAACAGATCTGCGTCTCCGGTCTCGCCGCTTAGATCGCTCTGTGTAGTAGTTGTAGTATATCCACTCTCTCAAAGCATCCAGGCGCCCCCTGGCTTCGGGTTCTATGTAAACTCCTTCATGCGCCGCTGCCCTGATAACATCCACCACCGCAGAATAAGCCACACCCAGCCAACCTACACATTCGTTCTGCGAGTCACACACGGGAGGAGCGGGAAGAGCTGGAAGAACCATGTTTTTTTTTTTATTCCAAAAGATTATCCAAAACCTCAAAATGAAGATCTATTAAGTGAACGCGCTCCCCTCCGGTGGCGTGGTCAAACTCTACAGCCAAAGAACAGATAATGGCATTTGTAAGATGTTGCACAATGGCTTCCAAAAGGCAAACGGCCCTCACGTCCAAGTGGACGTAAAGGCTAAACCCTTCAGGGTGAATCTCCTCTATAAACATTCCAGCACCTTCAACCATGCCCAAATAATTCTCATCTCGCCACCTTCTCAATATATCTCTAAGCAAATCCCGAATATTAAGTCCGGCCATTGTAAAAATCTGCTCCAGAGCGCCCTCCACCTTCAGCCTCAAGCAGCGAATCATGATTGCAAAAATTCAGGTTCCTCACAGACCTGTATAAGATTCAAAAGCGGAACATTAACAAAAATACCGCGATCCCGTAGGTCCCTTCGCAGGGCCAGCTGAACATAATCGTGCAGGTCTGCACGGACCAGCGCGGCCACTTCCCCGCCAGGAACCaTGACAAAAGAACCCACACTGATTATGACACGCATACTCGGAGCTATGCTAACCAGCGTAGCCCCGATGTAAGCTTGTTGCATGGGCGGCGATATAAAATGCAAGGTGCTGCTCAAAAAATCAGGCAAAGCCTCGCGCAAAAAAGAAAGCACATCGTAGTCATGCTCATGCAGATAAAGGCAGGTAAGCTCCGGAACCACCACAGAAAAAGACACCATTTTTCTCTCAAACATGTCTGCGGGTTTCTGCATAAACACAAAATAAAATAACAAAAAAACATTTAAACATTAGAAGCCTGTCTTACAACAGGAAAAACAACCCTTATAAGCATAAGACGGACTACGGCCATGCCGGCGTGACCGTAAAAAAACTGGTCACCGTGATTAAAAAGCACCACCGACAGCTCCTCGGTCATGTCCGGAGTCATAATGTAAGACTCGGTAAACACATCAGGTTGATTCACATCGGTCAGTGCTAAAAAGCGACCGAAATAGCCCGGGGGAATACATACCCGCAGGCGTAGAGACAACATTACAGCCCCCATAGGAGGTATAACAAAATTAATAGGAGAGAAAAACACATAAACACCTGAAAAACCCTCCTGCCTAGGCAAAATAGCACCCTCCCGCTCCAGAACAACATACAGCGCTTCCACAGCGGCAGCCATAACAGTCAGCCTTACCAGTAAAAAAGAAAACCTATTAAAAAAACACCACTCGACACGGCACCAGCTCAATCAGTCACAGTGTAAAAAAGGGCCAAGTGCAGAGCGAGTATATATAGGACTAAAAAATGACGTAACGGTTAAAGTCCACAAAAAACACCCAGAAAACCGCACGCGAACCTACGCCCAGAAACGAAAGCCAAAAAACCCACAACTTCCTCAAATCGTCACTTCCGTTTTCCCACGTTACGTCACTTCCCATTTTAAGAAAACTACAATTCCCAACACATACAAGTTACTCCGCCCTAAAACCTACGTCACCCGCCCCGTTCCCACGCCCCGCGCCACGTCACAAACTCCACCCCCTCATTATCATATTGGCTTCAATCCAAAATAAGGTATATTATTGATGATGTTAATTAATTTAAATCCGCATGCGATATCGAGCTCTCCCGGGAATTCGGATCTGCGACGCGAGGCTGGATGGCCTTCCCCATTATGATTCTTCTCGcgtttaagggcaccaataactgccttaaaaaaattacgccccgccctgccactcatcgcagtactgttgtaattcattaagcattctgccgacatggaagccatcacaaacggcatgatgaacctgaatcgccagcggcatcagcaccttgtcgccttgcgtataatatttgcccatggtgaaaacgggggcgaagaagttgtccatattggccacgtttaaatcaaaactggtgaaactcacccagggattggctgagacgaaaaacatattctcaataaaccctttagggaaataggccaggttttcaccgtaacacgccacatcttgcgaatatatgtgtagaaactgccggaaatcgtcgtggtattcactccagagcgatgaaaacgtttcagtttgctcatggaaaacggtgtaacaagggtgaacactatcccatatcaccagctcaccgtctttcattgccatacggaattccggatgagcattcatcaggcgggcaagaatgtgaataaaggccggataaaacttgtgcttatttttctttacggtctttaaaaaggccgtaatatccagctgaacggtctggttataggtacattgagcaactgactgaaatgcctcaaaatgttctttacgatgccattgggatatatcaacggtggtatatccagtgatattactccatatagcttccttagctcctgaaaatctcgataactcaaaaaatacgcccggtagtgatcttatttcattatggtgaaagttggaacctcttacgtgccgatcaacgtctcattttcgccaaaagttggcccagggcttcccggtatcaacagggacaccaggatttatttattctgcgaagtgatcttccgtcacaggtatttattcgcgataagctcatggagcggcgtaaccgtcgcacaggaaggacagagaaagcgcggatctgggaagtgacggacagaacggtcaggacctggattggggaggcggttgccgccgctgctgctgacggtgtgacgttctctgttccggtcacaccacatacgttccgccattcctatgcgatgcacatgctgtatgccggtataccgctgaaagttctgcaaagcctgatgggacataagtccatcagttcaacggaagtctacacgaaggtttttgcgctggatgtggctgcccggcaccgggtgcagtttgcgatgccggagtctgatgcggttgcgatgctgaaacaattatcctgagaataaatgccttggcctttatatggaaatgtggaactgagtggatatgctgtttttgtctgttaaacagagaagctggctgttatccactgagaagcgaacgaaacagtcgggaaaatctcccattatcgtagagatccgcattattaatctcaggagcctgtgtagcgtttataggaagtagtgttctgtcatgatgcctgcaagcggtaacgaaaacgatttgaatatgccttcaggaacaatagaaatcttcgtgcggtgttacgttgaagtggagcggattatgtcagcaatggacagaacaacctaatgaacacagaaccatgatgtggtctgtccttttacagccagtagtgctcgccgcagtcgagcgacagggcgaagccctcgagtgagcgaggaagcaccagggaacagcacttatatattctgcttacacacgatgcctgaaaaaacttcccttggggttatccacttatccacggggatatttttataattattttttttatagtttttagatcttcttttttagagcgccttgtaggcctttatccatgctggttctagagaaggtgttgtgacaaattgccctacagtgtgacaaatcaccctcaaatgacagtcctgtctgtgacaaattgcccttaaccctgtgacaaattgccctcagaagaagctgatttcacaaagttatccctgcttattgactctatttatttagtgtgacaatctaaaaacttgtcacacttcacatggatctgtcatggcggaaacagcggttatcaatcacaagaaacgtaaaaatagcccgcgaatcgtccagtcaaacgacctcactgaggcggcatatagtctctcccgggatcaaaaacgtatgctgtatctgttcgttgaccagatcagaaaatctgatggcaccctacaggaacatgacggtatctgcgagatccatgttgctaaatatgctgaaatattcggattgacctctgcggaagccagtaaggatatacggcaggcattgaagagtttcgcggggaaggaagtggttttttatcgccctgaagaggatgccggcgatgaaaaaggctatgaatcttttccttggtttatcaaacgtgcgcacagtccatccagagggctttacagtgtacatatcaacccatatctcattcccttctttatcgggttacagaaccggtttacgcagtttcggcttagtgaaacaaaagaaatcaccaatccgtatgccatgcgtttatacgaatccctgtgtcagtatcgtaagccggatggctcaggcatcgtctctctgaaaatcgactggatcatagagcgttaccagctgcctcaaagttaccagcgtatgcctgacttccgccgccgcttcctgcaggtctgtgttaatgagatcaacagcagaactccaatgcgcctctcatacattgagaaaaagaaaggccgccagacgactcatatcgtattttccttccgcgatatcacttccatgacgacaggatagtctgagggttatctgtcacagatttgagggtggttcgtcacatttgttctgacctactgaggg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TTA.ΔPol.ΔProt.mCherry Adenovirus Vector Sequence (SEQ ID NO: 36):

This was the virus was used in the protease selection experiments anddirected evolution of dox insensitivity in the tet-transactivator.

CATCATCAATAATATACCTTATTTTGGATTGAAGCCAATATGATAATGAGGGGGTGGAGTTTGTGACGTGGCGCGGGGCGTGGGAACGGGGCGGGTGACGTAGTAGTGTGGCGGAAGTGTGATGTTGCAAGTGTGGCGGAACACATGTAAGCGACGGATGTGGCAAAAGTGACGTTTTTGGTGTGCGCCGGTGTACACAGGAAGTGACAATTTTCGCGCGGTTTTAGGCGGATGTTGTAGTAAATTTGGGCGTAACCGAGTAAGATTTGGCCATTTTCGCGGGAAAACTGAataagaggaagtgaaatctgaataattttgtgttactcatagcgcgtaatagAAGCCATAGAGCCCACCGCATCCCCAGCATGCCTGCTAGAATTCGAACAAACGACCCAACACCCGTGCGTTTTATTCTGTCTTTTTATTGCCGgcggccgcGAACAAATGTGGTATGGCTGATTATGATCCTCTAGAGATAATTCTAGTTACCCGGGGAGCATGTCAAGGTCCAAATCGTCAAGAGCGTCAGCAGGCAGCATATCAAGGTCAAAGTCGTCAAGGGCATCGGCTGGGAGCATGTCTAAGTCAAAATCGTCAAGGGCGTCGGCCGGCCCGCCGCTTTCGCACTTTAGCTGTTTCTCCAGGCCACATATGATTAGTTCCAGGCCGAAAAGGAAGGCAGGTTCGGCTCCCTGATGGTCGAACAGCTCAATTGCTTGTCTCAGAAGTGGGGGCATAGAATCGGTGGTAGGTGTCTCTCTTTCCTCTTTTGCTACTTGATGCTCCTGATCCTCCAATACGCAGCCCAGTGTAAAGTGGCCCACGGCGGACAGAGCGTACAGTGCGTTCTCCAGGGAGAAGCCTTGCTGACACAGGAACGCGAGCTGATTTTCCAGGGTTTCGTACTGTTTCTCTGTTGGGCGGGTGCCGAGATGCACTTTAGCCCCGTCGCGATGTGAGAGGAGAGCACAGCGGAATGACTTGGCGTTGTTCCGCAGAAAGTCTTGCCATGACTCGCCTTCCAGGGGGCAGAAGTGGGTATGATGCCTGTCCAGCATCTCGATTGCCAGGGCATCGAGCAGGGCCCGCTTGTTCTTCACGTGCCAGTACAGGGTAGGCTGCTCAACTCCCAGCTTTTGAGCGAGTTTCCTTGTCGTCAGGCCTTCGATACCGACTTCATTGAGTAATTCCAGAGCAGAGTTTATGACTTTGCTCTTGTCCAGTCTAGACATAGGACGCGTCAGCTGACTAGAGGATCCCCGCGGAGGgGTACCAAGCTTAAGTTTAAACGCTAGCCAGCTTGGGTCTCCCTATAGTGAGTCGTATTAATTTCGATAAGCCAGTAAGCAGTGGGTTCTCTAGTTAGCCAGAGAGCTCTGCTTATATAGACCTCCCACCGTACACGCCTACCGCCCATTTGCGTCAATGGGGCGGAGTTGTTACGACATTTTGGAAAGTCCCGTTGATTTTGGTGCCAAAACAAACTCCCATTGACGTCAATGGGGTGGAGACTTGGAAATCCCCGTGAGTCAAACCGCTATCCACGCCCATTGATGTACTGCCAAAACCGCATCACCATGGTAATAGCGATGACTAATACGTAGATGTACTGCCAAGTAGGAAAGTCCCATAAGGTCATGTACTGGGCATAATGCCAGGCGGGCCATTTACCGTCATTGACGTCAATAGGGGGCGTACTTGGCATATGATACACTTGATGTACTGCCAAGTGGGCAGTTTACCGTAAATACTCCACCCATTGACGTCAATGGAAAGTCCCTATTGGCGTTACTATGGGAACATACGTCATTATTGACGTCAATGGGCGGGGGTCGTTGGGCGGTCAGCCAGGCGGGCCATTTACCGTAAGTTATGTAACGCGGAACTCCATATATGGGCTATGAACTAATGACCCCGTAATTGATTACTATTAATAACTAGTCAATAATCAATGTCAACGCGTATATCTGtgggcgtggcttaagggtgggaaagaatatataaggigggggtcttatgtagattgtatCTGTTTTGCAGCAGCCGCCGCCGCCATGAGCACCAACTCGTTTGATGGAAGCATTGTGAGCTCATATTTGACAACGCGCATGCCCCCATGGGCCGGGGTGCGTCAGAATGTGATGGGCTCCAGCATTGATGGTCGCCCCGTCCTGCCCGCAAACTCTACTACCTTGACCTACGAGACCGTGTCTGGAACGCCGTTGGAGACTGCAGCCTCCGCCGCCGCTTCAGCCGCTGCAGCCACCGCCCGCGGGATTGTGACTGACTTTGCTTTCCTGAGCCCGCTTGCAAGCAGTGCAGCTTCCCGTTCATCCGCCCGCGATGACAAGTTGACGGCTCTTTTGGCACAATTGGATTCTTTGACCCGGGAACTTAATGTCGTTTCTCAGCAGCTGTTGGATCTGCGCCAGCAGGTTTCTGCCCTGAAGGCTTCCTCCCCTCCCAATGCGGTTTAAAACATAAATAAAAAACCAGACTCTGTTTGGATTTGGATCAAGCAAGTGTCTTGCTGTCTTTATTTAGGGGTTTTGCGCGCGCGGTAGGCCCGGGACCAGCGGTCTCGGTCGTTGAGGGTCCTGTGTATTTTTTCCAGGACGTGGTAAAGGTGACTCTGGATGTTCAGATACATGGGCATAAGCCCGTCTCTGGGGTGGAGGTAGCACCACTGCAGAGCTTCATGCTGCGGGGTGGTGTTGTAGATGATCCAGTCGTAGCAGGAGCGCTGGGCGTGGTGCCTAAAAATGTCTTTCAGTAGCAAGCTGATTGCCAGGGGCAGGCCCTTGGTGTAAGTGTTTACAAAGCGGTTAAGCTGGGATGGGTGCATACGTGGGGATATGAGATGCATCTTGGACTGTATTTTTAGGTTGGCTATGTTCCCAGCCATATCCCTCCGGGGATTCATGTTGTGCAGAACCACCAGCACAGTGTATCCGGTGCACTTGGGAAATTTGTCATGTAGCTTAGAAGGAAATGCGTGGAAGAACTTGGAGACGCCCTTGTGACCTCCAAGATTTTCCATGCATTCGTCCATAATGATGGCAATGGGCCCACGGGCGGCGGCCTGGGCGAAGATATTTCTGGGATCACTAACGTCATAGTTGTGTTCCAGGATGAGATCGTCATAGGCCATTTTTACAAAGCGCGGGCGGAGGGTGCCAGACTGCGGTATAATGGTTCCATCCGGCCCAGGGGCGTAGTTACCCTCACAGATTTGCATTTCCCACGCTTTGAGTTCAGATGGGGGGATCATGTCTACCTGCGGGGCGATGAAGAAAACGGTTTCCGGGGTAGGGGAGATCAGCTGGGAAGAAAGCAGGTTCCTGAGCAGCTGCGACTTACCGCAGCCGGTGGGCCCGTAAATCACACCTATTACCGGcTGCAACTGGTAGTTAAGAGAGCTGCAGCTGCCGTCATCCCTGAGCAGGGGGGCCACTTCGTTAAGCATGTCCCTGACTCGCATGTTTTCCCTGACCAAATCCGCCAGAAGGCGCTCGCCGCCCAGCGATAGCAGTTCTTGCAAGGAAGCAAAGTTTTTCAACGGTTTGAGACCGTCCGCCGTAGGCATGCTTTTGAGCGTTTGACCAAGCAGTTCCAGGCGGTCCCACAGCTCGGTCACCTGCTCTACGGCATCTCGATCCAGCATATCTCCTCGTTTCGCGGGTTGGGGCGGCTTTCGCTGTACGGCAGTAGTCGGTGCTCGTCCAGACGGGCCAGGGTCATGTCTTTCCACGGGCGCAGGGTCCTCGTCAGCGTAGTCTGGGTCACGGTGAAGGGGTGCGCTCCGGGCTGCGCGCTGGCCAGGGTGCGCTTGAGGCTGGTCCTGCTGGTGCTGAAGCGCTGCCGGTCTTCGCCCTGCGCGTCGGCCAGGTAGCATTTGACCATGGTGTCATAGTCCAGCCCCTCCGCGGCGTGGCCCTTGGCGCGCAGCTTGCCCTTGGAGGAGGCGCCGCACGAGGGGCAGTGCAGACTTTTGAGGGCGTAGAGCTTGGGCGCGAGAAATACCGATTCCGGGGAGTAGGCATCCGCGCCGCAGGCCCCGCAGACGGTCTCGCATTCCACGAGCCAGGTGAGCTCTGGCCGTTCGGGGTCAAAAACCAGGTTTCCCCCATGCTTTTTGATGCGTTTCTTACCTCTGGTTTCCATGAGCCGGTGTCCACGCTCGGTGACGAAAAGGCTGTCCGTGTCCCCGTATACAGACTTGAGAGGCCTGTCCTCGAGCGGTGTTCCGCGGTCCTCCTCGTATAGAAACTCGGACCACTCTGAGACAAAGGCTCGCGTCCAGGCCAGCACGAAGGAGGCTAAGTGGGAGGGGTAGCGGTCGTTGTCCACTAGGGGGTCCACTCGCTCCAGGGTGTGAAGACACATGTCGCCCTCTTCGGCATCAAGGAAGGTGATTGGTTTGTAGGTGTAGGCCACGTGACCGGGTGTTCCTGAAGGGGGGCTATAAAAGGGGGTGGGGGCGCGTTCGTCCTCACTCTCTTCCGCATCGCTGTCTGCGAGGGCCAGCTGTTGGGGTGAGTACTCCCTCTGAAAAGCGGGCATGACTTCTGCGCTAAGATTGTCAGTTTCCAAAAACGAGGAGGATTTGATATTCACCTGGCCCGCGGTGATGCCTTTGAGGGTGGCCGCATCCATCTGGTCAGAAAAGACAATCTTTTTGTTGTCAAGCTTGGTGGCAAACGACCCGTAGAGGGCGTTGGACAGCAACTTGGCGATGGAGCGCAGGGTTTGGTTTTTGTCGCGATCGGCGCGCTCCTTGGCCGCGATGTTTAGCTGCACGTATTCGCGCGCAACGCACCGCCATTCGGGAAAGACGGTGGTGCGCTCGTCGGGCACCAGGTGCACGCGCCAACCGCGGTTGTGCAGGGTGACAAGGTCAACGCTGGTGGCTACCTCTCCGCGTAGGCGCTCGTTGGTCCAGCAGAGGCGGCCGCCCTTGCGCGAGCAGAATGGCGGTAGGGGGTCTAGCTGCGTCTCGTCCGGGGGGTCTGCGTCCACGGTAAAGACCCCGGGCAGCAGGCGCGCGTCGAAGTAGTCTATCTTGCATCCTTGCAAGTCTAGCGCCTGCTGCCATGCGCGGGCGGCAAGCGCGCGCTCGTATGGGTTGAGTGGGGGACCCCATGGCATGGGGTGGGTGAGCGCGGAGGCGTACATGCCGCAAATGTCGTAAACGTAGAGGGGCTCTCTGAGTATTCCAAGATATGTAGGGTAGCATCTTCCACCGCGGATGCTGGCGCGCACGTAATCGTATAGTTCGTGCGAGGGAGCGAGGAGGTCGGGACCGAGGTTGCTACGGGCGGGCTGCTCTGCTCGGAAGACTATCTGCCTGAAGATGGCATGTGAGTTGGATGATATGGTTGGACGCTGGAAGACGTTGAAGCTGGCGTCTGTGAGACCTACCGCGTCACGCACGAAGGAGGCGTAGGAGTCGCGCAGCTTGTTGACCAGCTCGGCGGTGACCTGCACGTCTAGGGCGCAGTAGTCCAGGGTTTCCTTGATGATGTCATACTTATCCTGTCCCTTTTTTTTCCACAGCTCGCGGTTGAGGACAAACTCTTCGCGGTCTTTCCAGTACTCTTGGATCGGAAACCCGTCGGCCTCCGAACGGTAAGAGCCTAGCATGTAGAACTGGTTGACGGCCTGGTAGGCGCAGCATCCCTTTTCTACGGGTAGCGCGTATGCCTGCGCGGCCTTCCGGAGCGAGGTGTGGGTGAGCGCAAAGGTGTCCCTGACCATGACCAGCATGAAGGGCACGAGCTGCTTCCCAAAGGCCCCCATCCAAGTATAGGTCTCTACATCGTAGGTGACAAAGAGACGCTCGGTGCGAGGATGCGAGCCGATCGGGAAGAACTGGATCTCCCGCCACCAATTGGAGGAGTGGCTATTGATGTGGTGAAAGTAGAAGTCCCTGCGACGGGCCGAACACTCGTGCTGGCTTTTGTAAAAACGTGCGCAGTACTGGCAGCGGTGCACGGGCTGTACATCCTGCACGAGGTTGACCTGACGACCGCGCACAAGGAAGCAGAGTGGGAATTTGAGCCCCTCGCCTGGCGGGTTTGGCTGGTGGTCTTCTACTTCGGCTGCTTGTCCTTGACCGTCTGGCTGCTCGAGGGGAGTTACGGTGGATCGGACCACCACGCCGCGCGAGCCCAAAGTCCAGATGTCCGCGCGCGGCGGTCGGAGCTTGATGACAACATCGCGCAGATGGGAGCTGTCCATGGTCTGGAGCTCCCGCGGCGTCAGGTCAGGCGGGAGCTCCTGCAGGTTTACCTCGCATAGACGGGTCAGGGCGCGGGCTAGATCCAGGTGATACCTAATTTCCAGGGGCTGGTTGGTGGCGGCGTCGATGGCTTGCAAGAGGCCGCATCCCCGCGGCGCGACTACGGTACCGCGCGGCGGGCGGTGGGCCGCGGGGGTGTCCTTGGATGATGCATCTAAAAGCGGTGACGCGGGCGAGCCCCCGGAGGTAGGGGGGGCTCCGGACCCGCCGGGAGAGGGGGCAGGGGCACGTCGGCGCCGCGCGCGGGCAGGAGCTGGTGCTGCGCGCGTAGGTTGCTGGCGAACGCGACGACGCGGCGGTTGATCTCCTGAATCTGGCGCCTCTGCGTGAAGACGACGGGCCCGGTGAGCTTGAaCCTGAAAGAGAGTTCGACAGAATCAATTTCGGTGTCGTTGACGGCGGCCTGGCGCAAAATCTCCTGCACGTCTCCTGAGTTGTCTTGATAGGCGATCTCGGCCATGAACTGCTCGATCTCTTCCTCCTGGAGATCTCCGCGTCCGGCTCGCTCCACGGTGGCGGCGAGGTCGTTGGAAATGCGGGCCATGAGCTGCGAGAAGGCGTTGAGGCCTCCCTCGTTCCAGACGCGGCTGTAGACCACGCCCCCTTCGGCATCGCGGGCGCGCATGACCACCTGCGCGAGATTGAGCTCCACGTGCCGGGCGAAGACGGCGTAGTTTCGCAGGCGCTGAAAGAGGTAGTTGAGGGTGGTGGCGGTGTGTTCTGCCACGAAGAAGTACATAACCCAGCGTCGCAACGTGGATTCGTTGATATCCCCCAAGGCCTCAAGGCGCTCCATGGCCTCGTAGAAGTCCACGGCGAAGTTGAAAAACTGGGAGTTGCGCGCCGACACGGTTAACTCCTCCTCCAGAAGACGGATGAGCTCGGCGACAGTGTCGCGCACCTCGCGCTCAAAGGCTACAGGGGCCTCTTCTTCTTCTTCAATCTCCTCTTCCATAAGGGCCTCCCCTTCTTCTTCTTCTGGCGGCGGTGGGGGAGGGGGGACACGGCGGCGACGACGGCGCACCGGGAGGCGGTCGACAAAGCGCTCGATCATCTCCCCGCGGCGACGGCGCATGGTCTCGGTGACGGCGCGGCCGTTCTCGCGGGGGCGCAGTTGGAAGACGCCGCCCGTCATGTCCCGGTTATGGGTTGGCGGGGGGCTGCCATGCGGCAGGGATACGGCGCTAACGATGCATCTCAACAATTGTTGTGTAGGTACTCCGCCGCCGAGGGACCTGAGCGAGTCCGCATCGACCGGATCGGAAAACCTCTCGAGAAAGGCGTCTAACCAGTCACAGTCGCAAGGTAGGCTGAGCACCGTGGCGGGCGGCAGCGGGCGGCGGTCGGGGTTGTTTCTGGCGGAGGTGCTGCTGATGATGTAATTAAAGTAGGCGGTCTTGAGACGGCGGATGGTCGACAGAAGCACCATGTCCTTGGGTCCGGCCTGCTGAATGCGCAGGCGGTCGGCCATGCCCCAGGCTTCGTTTTGACATCGGCGCAGGTCTTTGTAGTAGTCTTGCATGAGCCTTTCTACCGGCACTTCTTCTTCTCCTTCCTCTTGTCCTGCATCTCTTGCATCTATCGCTGCGGCGGCGGCGGAGTTTGGCCGTAGGTGGCGCCCTCTTCCTCCCATGCGTGTGACCCCGAAGCCCCTCATCGGCTGAAGCAGGGCTAGGTCGGCGACAACGCGCTCGGCTAATATGGCCTGCTGCACCTGCGTGAGGGTAGACTGGAAGTCATCCATGTCCACAAAGCGGTGGTATGCGCCCGTGTTGATGGTGTAAGTGCAGTTGGCCATAACGGACCAGTTAACGGTCTGGTGACCCGGCTGCGAGAGCTCGGTGTACCTGAGACGCGAGTAAGCCCTCGAGTCAAATACGTAGTCGTTGCAAGTCCGCACCAGGTACTGGTATCCCACCAAAAAGTGCGGCGGCGGCTGGCGGTAGAGGGGCCAGCGTAGGGTGGCCGGGGCTCCGGGGGCGAGATCTTCCAACATAAGGCGATGATATCCGTAGATGTACCTGGACATCCAGGTGATGCCGGCGGCGGTGGTGGAGGCGCGCGGAAAGTCGCGGACGCGGTTCCAGATGTTGCGCAGCGGCAAAAAGTGCTCCATGGTCGGGACGCTCTGGCCGGTCAGGCGCGCGCAATCGTTGACGCTCTAGACCGTGCAAAAGGAGAGCCTGTAAGCGGGCACTCTTCCGTGATGCGCCCGTGTTGATGGTGTAAGTGCAGTTGGCCATAACGGACCAGTTAACGGTCTGGTGACCCGGCTGCGAGAGCTCGGTGTACCTGAGACGCGAGTAAGCCCTCGAGTCAAATACGTAGTCGTTGCAAGTCCGCACCAGGTACTGGTATCCCACCAAAAAGTGCGGCGGCGGCTGGCGGTAGAGGGGCCAGCGTAGGGTGGCCGGGGCTCCGGGGGCGAGATCTTCCAACATAAGGCGATGATATCCGTAGATGTACCTGGACATCCAGGTGATGCCGGCGGCGGTGGTGGAGGCGCGCGGAAAGTCGCGGACGCGGTTCCAGATGTTGCGCAGCGGCAAAAAGTGCTCCATGGTCGGGACGCTCTGGCCGGTCAGGCGCGCGCAATCGTTGACGCTCTAGACCGTGCAAAAGGAGAGCCTGTAAGCGGGCACTCTTCCGTGGCTGGGGCAGGAGGACACGGGCAGCCTGGAGGCAACCCTAAACTACCTGCTGACCAACCGGCGGCAGAAGATCCCCTCGTTGCACAGTTTAAACAGCGAGGAGGAGCGCATTTTGCGCTACGTGCAGCAGAGCGTGAGCCTTAACCTGATGCGCGACGGGGTAACGCCCAGCGTGGCGCTGGACATGACCGCGCGCAACATGGAACCGGGCATGTATGCCTCAAACCGGCCGTTTATCAACCGCCTAATGGACTACTTGCATCGCGCGGCCGCCGTGAACCCCGAGTATTTCACCAATGCCATCTTGAACCCGCACTGGCTACCGCCCCCTGGTTTCTACACCGGGGGATTCGAGGTGCCCGAGGGTAACGATGGATTCCTCTGGGACGACATAGACGACAGCGTGTTTTCCCCGCAACCGCAGACCCTGCTAGAGTTGCAACAGCGCGAGCAGGCAGAGGCGGCGCTGCGAAAGGAAAGCTTCCGCAGGCCAAGCAGCTTGTCCGATCTAGGCGCTGCGGCCCCGCGGTCAGATGCTAGTAGCCCATTTCCAAGCTTGATAGGGTCTCTTACCAGCACTCGCACCACCCGCCCGCGCCTGCTGGGCGAGGAGGAGTACCTAAACAACTCGCTGCTGCAGCCGCAGCGCGAAAAAAACCTGCCTCCGGCATTTCCCAACAACGGGATAGAGAGCCTAGTGGACAAGATGAGTAGATGGAAGACGTACGCGCAGGAGCACAGGGACGTGCCAGGCCCGCGCCCGCCCACCCGTCGTCAAAGGCACGACCGTCAGCGGGGTCTGGTGTGGGAGGACGATGACTCGGCAGACGACAGCAGCGTCCTGGATTTGGGAGGGAGTGGCAACCCGTTTGCGCACCTTCGCCCCAGGCTGGGGAGAATGTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAaGCATGATGCAAAATAAAAAACTCACCAAGGCCATGGCACCGAGCGTTGGTTTTCTTGTATTCCCCTTAGTATGCGGCGCGCGGCGATGTATGAGGAAGGTCCTCCTCCCTCCTACGAGAGTGTG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CTGGCTCCCAAGGGTGCCCCAAATCCTTGCGAATGGGATGAAGCTGCTACTGCTCTTGAAATAAACCTAGAAGAAGAGGACGATGACAACGAAGACGAAGTAGACGAGCAAGCTGAGCAGCAAAAAACTCACGTATTTGGGCAGGCGCCTTATTCTGGTATAAATATTACAAAGGAGGGTATTCAAATAGGTGTCGAAGGTCAAACACCTAAATATGCCGATAAAACATTTCAACCTGAACCTCAAATAGGAGAATCTCAGTGGTACGAAACaGAAATTAATCATGCAGCTGGGAGAGTCCTaAAAAAGACTACCCCAATGAAACCATGTTACGGTTCATATGCAAAACCCACAAATGAAAATGGAGGGCAAGGCATTCTTGTAAAGCAACAAAATGGAAAGCTAGAAAGTCAAGTGGAAATGCAATTTTTCTCAACTACTGAGGCagCCGCAGGCAATGGTGATAACTTGACTCCTAAAGTGGTATTGTACAGTGAAGATGTAGATATAGAAACCCCAGACACTCATATTTCTTACATGCCCACTATTAAGGAAGGTAACTCACGAGAACTAATGGGCCAACAATCTATGCCCAACAGGCCTAATTACATTGCTTTTAGGGACAATTTTATTGGTCTAATGTATTACAACAGCACGGGTAATATGGGTGTTCTGGCGGGCCAAGCATCGCAGTTGAATGCTGTTGTAGATTTGCAAGACAGAAACACAGAGCTTTCATACCAGCTTTTGCTTGATTCCATTGGTGATAGAACCAGGTACTTTTCTATGTGGAATCAGGCTGTTGACAGCTATGATCCAGATGTTAGAATTATTGAAAATCATGGAACTGAAGATGAACTTCCAAATTACTGCTTTCCACTGGGAGGTGTGATTAATACAGAGACTCTTACCAAGGTAAAACCTAAAACAGGTCAGGAAAATGGATGGGAAAAAGATGCTACAGAATTTTCAGATAAAAATGAAATAAGAGTTGGAAATAATTTTGCCATGGAAATCAATCTAAATGCCAACCTGTGGAGAAATTTCCTGTACTCCAACATAGCGCTGTATTTGCCCGACAAGCTAAAGTACAGTCCTTCCAACGTAAAAATTTCTGATAACCCAAACACCTACGACTACATGAACAAGCGAGTGGTGGCTCCCGGGcTAGTGGACTGCTACATTAACCTTGGAGCACGCTGGTCCCTTGACTATATGGACAACGTCAACCCATTTAACCACCACCGCAATGCTGGCCTGCGCTACCGCTCAATGTTGCTGGGCAATGGTCGCTATGTGCCCTTCCACATCCAGGTGCCTCAGAAGTTCTTTGCCATTAAAAACCTCCTTCTCCTGCCGGGCTCATACACCTACGAGTGGAACTTCAGGAAGGATGTTAACATGGTTCTGCAGAGCTCCCTAGGAAATGACCTAAGGGTTGACGGAGCCAGCATTAAGTTTGATAGCATTTGCCTTTACGCCACCTTCTTCCCCATGGCCCACAACACCGCCTCCACGCTTGAGGCCATGCTTAGAAACGACACCAACGACCAGTCCTTTAACGACTATCTCTCCGCCGCCAACATGCTCTACCCTATACCCGCCAACGCTACCAACGTGCCCATATCCATCCCCTCCCGCAACTGGGCGGCTTTCCGCGGCTGGGCCTTCACGCGCCTTAAGACTAAGGAAACCCCATCACTGGGCTCGGGCTACGACCCTTATTACACCTACTCTGGCTCTATACCCTACCTAGATGGAACCTTTTACCTCAACCACACCTTTAAGAAGGTGGCCATTACCTTTGACTCTTCTGTCAGCTGGCCTGGCAATGACCGCCTGCTTACCCCCAACGAGTTTGAAATTAAGCGCTCAGTTGACGGGGAGGGTTACAACGTTGCCCAGTGTAACATGACCAAAGACTGGTTCCTGGTACAAATGCTAGCTAACTAtAACATTGGCTACCAGGGCTTCTATATCCCAGAGAGCTACAAGGACCGCATGTACTCCTTCTTTAGAAACTTCCAGCCCATGAGCCGTCAGGTGGTGGATGATACTAAATACAAGGACTACCAACAGGTGGGCATCCTACACCAACACAACAACTCTGGATTTGTTGGCTACCTTGCCCCCACCATGCGCGAAGGACAGGCCTACCCTGCTAACTTCCCCTATCCGCTTATAGGCAAGACCGCAGTTGACAGCATTACCCAGAAAAAGTTTCTTTGCGATCGCACCCTTTGGCGCATCCCATTCTCCAGTAACTTTATGTCCATGGGCGCACTCACAGACCTGGGCCAAAACCTTCTCTACGCCAACTCCGCCCACGCGCTAGACATGACTTTTGAGGTGGATCCCATGGACGAGCCCACCCTTCTTTATGTTTTGTTTGAAGTCTTTGACGTGGTCCGTGTGCACCAGCCGCACCGCGGCGTCATCGAAACCGTGTACCTGCGCACGCCCTTCTCGGCCGGCAACGCCACAACATAAAGAAGCAAGCAACATCAACAACAGCTGCCGCCAAATAATGTACTAGAGACACTTTCAATAAAGGCAAATGCTTTTATTTGTACACTCTCGGGTGATTATTTACCCCCACCCTTGCCGTCTGCGCCGTTTAAAAATCAAAGGGGTTCTGCCGCGCATCGCTATGCGCCACTGGCAGGGACACGTTGCGATACTGGTGTTTAGTGCTCCACTTAAACTCAGGCACAACCATCCGCGGCAGCTCGGTGAAGTTTTCACTCCACAGGCTGCGCACCATCACCAACGCGTTTAGCAGGTCGGGCGCCGATATCTTGAAGTCGCAGTTGGGGCCTCCGCCCTGCGCGCGCGAGTTGCGATACACAGGGTTGCAGCACTGGAACACTATCAGCGCCGGGTGGTGCACGCTGGCCAGCACGCTCTTGTCGGAGATCAGATCCGCGTCCAGGTCCTCCGCGTTGCTCAGGGCGAACGGAGTCAACTTTGGTAGCTGCCTTCCCAAAAAGGGCGCGTGCCCAGGCTTTGAGTTGCACTCGCACCGTAGTGGCATCAAAAGGTGACCGTGCCCGGTCTGGGCGTTAGGATACAGCGCCTGCATAAAAGCCTTGATCTGCTTAAAAGCCACCTGAGCCTTTGCGCCTTCAGAGAAGAACATGCCGCAAGACTTGCCGGAAAACTGATTGGCCGGACAGGCCGCGTCGTGCACGCAGCACCTTGCGTCGGTGTTGGAGATCTGCACCACATTTCGGCCCCACCGGTTCTTCACGATCTTGGCCTTGCTAGACTGCTCCTTCAGCGCGCGCTGCCCGTTTTCGCTCGTCACATCCATTTCAATCACGTGCTCCTTATTTATCATAATGCTTCCGTGTAGACACTTAAGCTCGCCTTCGATCTCAGCGCAGCGGTGCAGCCACAACGCGCAGCCCGTGGGCTCGTGATGCTTGTAGGTCACCTCTGCAAACGACTGCAGGTACGCCTGCAGGAATCGCCCCATCATCGTCACAAAGGTCTTGTTGCTGGTGAAGGTCAGCTGCAACCCGCGGTGCTCCTCGTTCAGCCAGGTCTTGCATACGGCCGCCAGAGCTTCCACTTGGTCAGGCAGTAGTTTGAAGTTCGCCTTTAGATCGTTATCCACGTGGTACTTGTCCATCAGCGCGCGCGCAGCCTCCATGCCCTTCTCCCACGCAGACACGATCGGCACACTCAGCGGGTTCATCACCGTAATTTCACTTTCCGCTTCGCTGGGCTCTTCCTCTTCCTCTTGCGTCCGCATACCACGCGCCACTGGGTCGTCTTCATTCAGCCGCCGCACTGTGCGCTTACCTCCTTTGCCATGCTTGATTAGCACCGGTGGGTTGCTGAAACCCACCATTTGTAGCGCCACATCTTCTCTTTCTTCCTCGCTGTCCACGATTACCTCTGGTGATGGCGGGCGCTCGGGCTTGGGAGAAGGGCGCTTCTTTTTCTTCTTGGGCGCAATGGCCAAATCCGCCGCCGAGGTCGATGGCCGCGGGCTGGGTGTGCGCGGCACCAGCGCGTCTTGTGATGAGTCTTCCTCGTCCTCGGACTCGATACGCCGCCTCATCCGCTTTTTTGGGGGCGCCCGGGGAGGCGGCGGCGACGGGGACGGGGACGACACGTCCTCCATGGTTGGGGGACGTCGCGCCGCACCGCGTCCGCGCTCGGGGGTGGTTTCGCGCTGCTCCTCTTCCCGACTGGCCATTTCCTTCTCCTATAGGCAGAAAAAGATCATGGAGTCAGTCGAGAAGAAGGACAGCCTAACCGCCCCCTCTGAGTTCGCCACCACCGCCTCCACCGATGCCGCCAACGCGCCTACCACCTTCCCCGTCGAGGCACCCCCGCTTGAGGAGGAGGAAGTGATTATCGAGCAGGACCCAGGTTTTGTAAGCGAAGACGACGAGGACCGCTCAGTACCAACAGAGGATAAAAAGCAAGACCAGGACAACGCAGAGGCAAACGAGGAACAAGTCGGGCGGGGGGACGAAAGGCATGGCGACTACCTAGATGTGGGAGACGACGTGCTGTTGAAGCATCTGCAGCGCCAGTGCGCCATTATCTGCGACGCGTTGCAAGAGCGCAGCGATGTGCCCCTCGCCATAGCGGATGTCAGCCTTGCCTACGAACGCCACCTATTCTCACCGCGCGTACCCCCCAAACGCCAAGAAAACGGCACATGCGAGCCCAACCCGCGCCTCAACTTCTACCCCGTATTTGCCGTGCCAGAGGTGCTTGCCACCTATCACATCTTTTTCCAAAACTGCAAGATACCCCTATCCTGCCGTGCCAACCGCAGCCGAGCGGACAAGCAGCTGGCCTTGCGGCAGGGCGCTGTCATACCTGATATCGCCTCGCTCAACGAAGTGCCAAAAATCTTTGAGGGTCTTGGACGCGACGAGAAGCGCGCGGCAAACGCTCTGCAACAGGAAAACAGCGAAAATGAAAGTCACTCTGGAGTGTTGGTGGAACTCGAGGGTGACAACGCGCGCCTAGCCGTACTAAAACGCAGCATCGAGGTCACCCACTTTGCCTACCCGGCACTTAACCTACCCCCCAAGGTCATGAGCACAGTCATGAGTGAGCTGATCGTGCGCCGTGCGCAGCCCCTGGAGAGGGATGCAAATTTGCAAGAACAAACAGAGGAGGGCCTACCCGCAGTTGGCGACGAGCAGCTAGCGCGCTGGCTTCAAACGCGCGAGCCTGCCGACTTGGAGGAGCGACGCAAACTAATGATGGCCGCAGTGCTCGTTACCGTGGAGCTTGAGTGCATGCAGCGGTTCTTTGCTGACCCGGAGATGCAGCGCAAGCTAGAGGAAACATTGCACTACACCTTTCGACAGGGCTACGTACGCCAGGCCTGCAAGATCTCCAACGTGGAGCTCTGCAACCTGGTCTCCTACCTTGGAATTTTGCACGAAAACCGCCTTGGGCAAAACGTGCTTCATTCCACGCTCAAGGGCGAGGCGCGCCGCGACTACGTCCGCGACTGCGTTTACTTATTTCTATGCTACACCTGGCAGACGGCCATGGGCGTTTGGCAGCAGTGCTTGGAGGAGTGCAACCTCAAGGAGCTGCAGAAACTGCTAAAGCAAAACTTGAAGGACCTATGGACGGCCTTCAACGAGCGCTCCGTGGCCGCGCACCTGGCGGACATCATTTTCCCCGAACGCCTGCTTAAAACCCTGCAACAGGGTCTGCCAGACTTCACCAGTCAAAGCATGTTGCAGAACTTTAGGAACTTTATCCTAGAGCGCTCAGGAATCTTGCCCGCCACCTGCTGTGCACTTCCTAGCGACTTTGTGCCCATTAAGTACCGCGAATGCCCTCCGCCGCTTTGGGGCCACTGCTACCTTCTGCAGCTAGCCAACTACCTTGCCTACCACTCTGACATAATGGAAGACGTGAGCGGTGACGGTCTACTGGAGTGTCACTGTCGCTGCAACCTATGCACCCCGCACCGCTCCCTGGTTTGCAATTCGCAGCTGCTTAACGAAAGTCAAATTATCGGTACCTTTGAGCTGCAGGGTCCCTCGCCTGACGAAAAGTCCGCGGCTCCGGGGTTGAAACTCACTCCGGGGCTGTGGACGTCGGCTTACCTTCGCAAATTTGTACCTGAGGACTACCACGCCCACGAGATTAGGTTCTACGAAGACCAATCCCGCCCGCCtAATGCGGAGCTTACCGCCTGCGTCATTACCCAGGGCCACATTCTTGGCCAATTGCAAGCCATCAACAAAGCCCGCCAAGAGTTTCTGCTACGAAAGGGACGGGGGGTTTACTTGGACCCCCAGTCCGGCGAGGAGCTCAACCCAATCCCCCCGCCGCCGCAGCCCTATCAGCAGCAGCCGCGGGCCCTTGCTTCCCAGGATGGCACCCAAAAAGAAGCTGCAGCTGCCGCCGCCACCCACGGACGAGGAGGAATACTGGGACAGTCAGGCAGAGGAGGTTTTGGACGAGGAGGAGGAGGACATGATGGAAGACTGGGAGAGCCTAGACGAGGAAGCTTCCGAGGTCGAAGAGGTGTCAGACGAAACACCGTCACCCTCGGTCGCATTCCCCTCGCCGGCGCCCCAGAAATCGGCAACCGGTTCCAGCATGGCTACAACCTCCGCTCCTCAGGCGCCGCCGGCACTGCCCGTTCGCCGACCCAACCGTAGATGGGACACCACTGGAACCAGGGCCGGTAAGTCCAAGCAGCCGCCGCCGTTAGCCCAAGAGCAACAACAGCGCCAAGGCTACCGCTCATGGCGCGGGCACAAGAACGCCATAGTTGCTTGCTTGCAAGACTGTGGGGGCAACATCTCCTTCGCCCGCCGCTTTCTTCTCTACCATCACGGCGTGGCCTTCCCCCGTAACATCCTGCATTACTACCGTCATCTCTACAGCCCATACTGCACCGGCGGCAGCGGCAGCAACAGCAGCGGCCACACAGAAGCAAAGGCGACCGGATAGCAAGACTCTGACAAAGCCCAAGAAATCCACAGCGGCGGCAGCAGCAGGAGGAGGAGCGCTGCGTCTGGCGCCCAACGAACCCGTATCGACCCGCGAGCTTAGAAACAGGATTTTTCCCACTCTGTATGCTATATTTCAACAGAGCAGGGGCCAAGAACAAGAGCTGAAAATAAAAAACAGGTCTCTGCGATCCCTCACCCGCAGCTGCCTGTATCACAAAAGCGAAGATCAGCTTCGGCGCACGCTGGAAGACGCGGAGGCTCTCTTCAGTAAATACTGCGCGCTGACTCTTAAGGACTAGTTTCGCGCCCTTTCTCAAATTTAAGCGCGAAAACTACGTCATCTCCAGCGGCCACACCCGGCGCCAGCACCTGTtGTCAGCGCCATTATGAGCAAGGAAATTCCCACGCCCTACATGTGGAGTTACCAGCCACAAATGGGACTTGCGGCTGGAGCTGCCCAAGACTACTCAACCCGAATAAACTACATGAGCGCGGGACCCCACATGATATCCCGGGTCAACGGAATaCGCGCCCACCGAAACCGAATTCTCcTGGAACAGGCGGCTATTACCACCACACCTCGTAATAACCTTAATCCCCGTAGTTGGCCCGCTGCCCTGGTGTACCAGGAAAGTCCCGCTCCCACCACTGTGGTACTTCCCAGAGACGCCCAGGCCGAAGTTCAGATGACTAACTCAGGGGCGCAGCTTGCGGGCGGCTTTCGTCACAGGGTGCGGTCGCCCGGGCAGGGTATAACTCACCTGACAATCAGAGGGCGAGGTATTCAGCTCAACGACGAGTCGGTGAGCTCCTCGCTTGGTCTCCGTCCGGACGGGACATTTCAGATCGGCGGCGCCGGCCGctCTTCATTCACGCCTCGTCAGGCAATCCTAACTCTGCAGACCTCGTCCTCTGAGCCGCGCTCTGGAGGCATTGGAACTCTGCAATTTATTGAGGAGTTTGTGCCATCGGTCTACTTTAACCCCTTCTCGGGACCTCCCGGCCACTATCCGGATCAATTTATTCCTAACTTTGACGCGGTAAAGGACTCGGCGGACGGCTACGACTGAATGTTAAGTGGAGAGGCAGAGCAACTGCGCCTGAAACACCTGGTCCACTGTCGCCGCCACAAGTGCTTTGCCCGCGACTCCGGTGAGTTTTGCTACTTTGAATTGCCCGAGGATCATATCGAGGGCCCGGCGCACGGCGTCCGGCTTACCGCCCAGGGAGAGCTTGCCCGTAGCCTGATTCGGGAGTTTACCCAGCGCCCCCTGCTAGTTGAGCGGGACAGGGGACCCTGTGTTCTCACTGTGATTTGCAACTGTCCTAACCcTGGATTACATCAAGATCTTTGTTGCCATCTCTGTGCTGAGTATAATAAATACAGAAATTAAAATATACTGGGGCTCCTATCGCCATCCTGTAAACGCCACCGTCTTCACCCGCCCAAGCAAACCAAGGCGAACCTTACCTGGTACTTTTAACATCTCTCCCTCTGTGATTTACAACAGTTTCAACCCAGACGGAGTGAGTCTACGAGAGAACCTCTCCGAGCTCAGCTACTCCATCAGAAAAAACACCACCCTCCTTACCTGCCGGGAACGTACGAGTGCGTCACCGGCCGCTGCACCACACCTACCGCCTGACCGTAAACCAGACTTTTTCCGGACAGACCTCAATAACTCTGTTTACCAGAACAGGAGGTGAGCTTAGAAAACCCTTAGGGTATTAGGCCAAAGGCGCAGCTACTGTGGGGTTTATGAACAATTCAAGCAACTCTACGGGCTATTCTAATTCAGGTTTCTCTAGAAATGGACGGAATTATTACAGAGCAGCGCCTGCTAGAAAGACGCAGGGCAGCGGCCGAGCAACAGCGCATGAATCAAGAGCTCCAAGACATGGTTAACTTGCACCAGTGCAAAAGGGGTATCTTTTGTCTGGTAAAGCAGGCCAAAGTCACCTACGACAGTAATACCACCGGACACCGCCTTAGCTACAAGTTGCCAACCAAGCGTCAGAAATTGGTGGTCATGGTGGGAGAAAAGCCCATTACCATAACTCAGCACTCGGTAGAAACCGAAGGCTGCATTCACTCACCTTGTCAAGGACCTGAGGATCTCTGCACCCTTATTAAGACCCTGTGCGGTCTCAAAGATCTTATTCCCTTTAACTAATAAAAAAAAATAATAAAGCATCACTTACTTAAAATCAGTTAGCAAATTTCTGTCCAGTTTATTCAGCAGCACCTCCTTGCCCTCCTCCCAGCTCTGGTATTGCAGCTTCCTCCTGGCTGCAAACTTTCTCCACAATCTAAATGGAATGTCAGTTTCCTCCTGTTCCTGTCCATCCGCACCCACTATCTTCATGTTGTTGCAGATGAAGCGCGCAAGACCGTCTGAAGATACCTTCAACCCCGTGTATCCATATGACACGGAAACCGGTCCTCCAACTGTGCCTTTTCTTACTCCTCCCTTTGTATCCCCCAATGGGTTTCAAGAGAGTCCCCCTGGGGTACTCTCTTTGCGCCTATCCGAACCTCTAGTTACCTCCAATGGCATGCTTGCGCTCAAAATGGGCAACGGCCTCTCTCTGGACGAGGCCGGCAACCTTACCTCCCAAAATGTAACCACTGTGAGCCCACCTCTCAAAAAAACCAAGTCAAACATAAACCTGGAAATATCTGCACCCCTCACAGTTACCTCAGAAGCCCTAACTGTGGCTGCCGCCGCACCTCTAATGGTCGCGGGCAACACACTCACCATGCAATCACAGGCCCCGCTAACCGTGCACGACTCCAAACTTAGCATTGCCACCCAAGGACCCCTCACAGTGTCAGAAGGAAAGCTAGCCCTGCAAACATCAGGCCCCCTCACCACCACCGATAGCAGTACCCTTACTATCACTGCCTCACCCCCTCTAACTACTGCCACTGGTAGCTTGGGCATTGACTTGAAAGAGCCCATTTATACACAAAATGGAAAACTAGGACTAAAGTACGGGGCTCCTTTGCATGTAACAGACGACCTAAACACTTTGACCGTAGCAACTGGTCCAGGTGTGACTATTAATAATACTTCCTTGCAAACTAAAGTTACTGGAGCCTTGGGTTTTGATTCACAAGGCAATATGCAACTTAATGTAGCAGGAGGACTAAGGATTGATTCTCAAAACAGACGCCTTATACTTGATGTTAGTTATCCGTTTGATGCTCAAAACCAACTAAATCTAAGACTAGGACAGGGCCCTCTTTTTATAAACTCAGCCCACAACTTGGATATTAACTACAACAAAGGCCTTTACTTGTTTACAGCTTCAAACAATTCCAAAAAGCTTGAGGTTAACCTAAGCACTGCCAAGGGGTTGATGTTTGACGCTACAGCCATAGCCATTAATGCAGGAGATGGGCTTGAATTTGGTTCACCTAATGCACCAAACACAAATCCCCTCAAAACAAAAATTGGCCATGGCCTAGAATTTGATTCAAACAAGGCTATGGTTCCTAAACTAGGAACTGGCCTTAGTTTTGACAGCACAGGTGCCATTACAGTAGGAAACAAAAATAATGATAAGCTAACTTTGTGGACCACACCAGCTCCATCTCCTAACTGTAGACTAAATGCAGAGAAAGATGCTAAACTCACTTTGGTCTTAACAAAATGTGGCAGTCAAATACTTGCTACAGTTTCAGTTTTGGCTGTTAAAGGCAGTTTGGCTCCAATATCTGGAACAGTTCAAAGTGCTCATCTTATTATAAGATTTGACGAAAATGGAGTGCTACTAAACAATTCCTTCCTGGACCCAGAATATTGGAACTTTAGAAATGGAGATCTTACTGAAGGCACAGCCTATACAAACGCTGTTGGATTTATGCCTAACCTATCAGCTTATCCAAAATCTCACGGTAAAACTGCCAAAAGTAACATTGTCAGTCAAGTTTACTTAAACGGAGACAAAACTAAACCTGTAACACTAACCATTACACTAAACGGTACACAGGAAACAGGAGACACAACTCCAAGTGCATACTCTATGTCATTTTCATGGGACTGGTCTGGCCACAACTACATTAATGAAATATTTGCCACATCCTCTTACACTTTTTCATACATTGCCCAAGAATAAAGAATCGTTTGTGTTATGTTTCAACGTGTTTATTTTTCAATTGCAGAAAATTTCGAATCATTTTTCATTCAGTAGTATAGCCCCACCACCACATAGCTTATACAGATCACCGTACCTTAATCAAACTCACAGAACCCTAGTATTCAACCTGCCACCTCCCTCCCAACACACAGAGTACACAGTCCTTTCTCCCCGGCTGGCCTTAAAAAGCATCATATCATGGGTAACAGACATATTCTTAGGTGTTATATTCCACACGGTTTCCTGTCGAGCCAAACGCTCATCAGTGATATTAATAAACTCCCCGGGCAGCTCACTTAAGTTCATGTCGCTGTCCAGCTGCTGAGCCACAGGCTGCTGTCCAACTTGCGGTTGCTTAACGGGCGGCGAAGGAGAAGTCCACGCCTACATGGGGGTAGAGTCATAATCGTGCATCAGGATAGGGCGGTGGTGCTGCAGCAGCGCGCGAATAAACTGCTGCCGCCGCCGCTCCGTCCTGCAGGAATACAACATGGCAGTGGTCTCCTCAGCGATGATTCGCACCGCCCGCAGCATAAGGCGCCTTGTCCTCCGGGCACAGCAGCGCACCCTGATCTCACTTAAATCAGCACAGTAACTGCAGCACAGCACCACAATATTGTTCAAAATCCCACAGTGCAAGGCGCTGTATCCAAAGCTCATGGCGGGGACCACAGAACCCACGTGGCCATCATACCACAAGCGCAGGTAGATTAAGTGGCGACCCCTCATAAACACGCTGGACATAAACATTACCTCTTTTGGCATGTTGTAATTCACCACCTCCCGGTACCATATAAACCTCTGATTAAACATGGCGCCATCCACCACCATCCTAAACCAGCTGGCCAAAACCTGCCCGCCGGCTATACACTGCAGGGAACCGGGACTGGAACAATGACAGTGGAGAGCCCAGGACTCGTAACCATGGATCATCATGCTCGTCATGATATCAATGTTGGCACAACACAGGCACACGTGCATACACTTCCTCAGGATTACAAGCTCCTCCCGCGTTAGAACCATATCCCAGGGAACAACCCATTCCTGAATCAGCGTAAATCCCACACTGCAGGGAAGACCTCGCACGTAACTCACGTTGTGCATTGTCAAAGTGTTACATTCGGGCAGCAGCGGATGATCCTCCAGTATGGTAGCGCGGGTTTCTGTCTCAAAAGGAGGTAGACGATCCCTACTGTACGGAGTGCGCCGAGACAACCGAGATCGTGTTGGTCGTAGTGTCATGCCAAATGGAACGCCGGACGTAGTCATATTTCCTGAAGCAAAACCAGGTGCGGGCGTGACAAACAGATCTGCGTCTCCGGTCTCGCCGCTTAGATCGCTCTGTGTAGTAGTTGTAGTATATCCACTCTCTCAAAGCATCCAGGCGCCCCCTGGCTTCGGGTTCTATGTAAACTCCTTCATGCGCCGCTGCCCTGATAACATCCACCACCGCAGAATAAGCCACACCCAGCCAACCTACACATTCGTTCTGCGAGTCACACACGGGAGGAGCGGGAAGAGCTGGAAGAACCATGTTTTTTTTTTTATTCCAAAAGATTATCCAAAACCTCAAAATGAAGATCTATTAAGTGAACGCGCTCCCCTCCGGTGGCGTGGTCAAACTCTACAGCCAAAGAACAGATAATGGCATTTGTAAGATGTTGCACAATGGCTTCCAAAAGGCAAACGGCCCTCACGTCCAAGTGGACGTAAAGGCTAAACCCTTCAGGGTGAATCTCCTCTATAAACATTCCAGCACCTTCAACCATGCCCAAATAATTCTCATCTCGCCACCTTCTCAATATATCTCTAAGCAAATCCCGAATATTAAGTCCGGCCATTGTAAAAATCTGCTCCAGAGCGCCCTCCACCTTCAGCCTCAAGCAGCGAATCATGATTGCAAAAATTCAGGTTCCTCACAGACCTGTATAAGATTCAAAAGCGGAACATTAACAAAAATACCGCGATCCCGTAGGTCCCTTCGCAGGGCCAGCTGAACATAATCGTGCAGGTCTGCACGGACCAGCGCGGCCACTTCCCCGCCAGGAACCaTGACAAAAGAACCCACACTGATTATGACACGCATACTCGGAGCTATGCTAACCAGCGTAGCCCCGATGTAAGCTTGTTGCATGGGCGGCGATATAAAATGCAAGGTGCTGCTCAAAAAATCAGGCAAAGCCTCGCGCAAAAAAGAAAGCACATCGTAGTCATGCTCATGCAGATAAAGGCAGGTAAGCTCCGGAACCACCACAGAAAAAGACACCATTTTTCTCTCAAACATGTCTGCGGGTTTCTGCATAAACACAAAATAAAATAACAAAAAAACATTTAAACATTAGAAGCCTGTCTTACAACAGGAAAAACAACCCTTATAAGCATAAGACGGACTACGGCCATGCCGGCGTGACCGTAAAAAAACTGGTCACCGTGATTAAAAAGCACCACCGACAGCTCCTCGGTCATGTCCGGAGTCATAATGTAAGACTCGGTAAACACATCAGGTTGATTCACATCGGTCAGTGCTAAAAAGCGACCGAAATAGCCCGGGGGAATACATACCCGCAGGCGTAGAGACAACATTACAGCCCCCATAGGAGGTATAACAAAATTAATAGGAGAGAAAAACACATAAACACCTGAAAAACCCTCCTGCCTAGGCAAAATAGCACCCTCCCGCTCCAGAACAACATACAGCGCTTCCACAGCGGCAGCCATAACAGTCAGCCTTACCAGTAAAAAAGAAAACCTATTAAAAAAACACCACTCGACACGGCACCAGCTCAATCAGTCACAGTGTAAAAAAGGGCCAAGTGCAGAGCGAGTATATATAGGACTAAAAAATGACGTAACGGTTAAAGTCCACAAAAAACACCCAGAAAACCGCACGCGAACCTACGCCCAGAAACGAAAGCcaaaaaacccacaacttcctcaaatcgtcacttccgttttcccacgttacTTCTGTGGAATGTGTGTCAGTTAGGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCAGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCAGGTGTGGAAAGTCCCCAGGCTCCCCAGCAGGCAGAAGTATGCAAAGCATGCATCTCAATTAGTCAGCAACCATAGTCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCATCCCGCCCCTAACTCCGCCCAGTTCCGCCCATTCTCCGCCCCATGGCTGACTAATTTTTTTTATTTATGCAGAGGCCGAGGCCGCCTCTGCCTCTGAGCTATTCCAGAAGTAGTGAGGAGGCTTTTTTGGAGGCCTAGGCTTTTGCAAACCTCCGCGGGGATCCgcaccatggtgagcaagggcgaggaggataacatggccatcatcaaggagttcatgcgcttcaaggtgcacatggagggctccgtgaacggccacgagttcgagatcgagggcgagggcgagggccgcccctacgagggcacccagaccgccaagctgaaggtgaccaagggtggccccctgcccttcgcctgggacatcctgtcccctcagttcatgtacggctccaaggcctacgtgaagcaccccgccgacatccccgactacttgaagctgtccttccccgagggcttcaagtgggagcgcgtgatgaacttcgaggacggcggcgtggtgaccgtgacccaggactcctccctgcaggacggcgagttcatctacaaggtgaagctgcgcggcaccaacttcccctccgacggccccgtaatgcagaagaagaccatgggctgggaggcctcctccgagcggatgtaccccgaggacggcgccc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All of the features disclosed in this specification may be combined inany combination. Each feature disclosed in this specification may bereplaced by an alternative feature serving the same, equivalent, orsimilar purpose. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise, each featuredisclosed is only an example of a generic series of equivalent orsimilar features.

From the above description, one skilled in the art can easily ascertainthe essential characteristics of the present disclosure, and withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope thereof, can make various changesand modifications of the disclosure to adapt it to various usages andconditions. Thus, other embodiments are also within the claims.

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While several inventive embodiments have been described and illustratedherein, those of ordinary skill in the art will readily envision avariety of other means and/or structures for performing the functionand/or obtaining the results and/or one or more of the advantagesdescribed herein, and each of such variations and/or modifications isdeemed to be within the scope of the inventive embodiments describedherein. More generally, those skilled in the art will readily appreciatethat all parameters, dimensions, materials, and configurations describedherein are meant to be exemplary and that the actual parameters,dimensions, materials, and/or configurations will depend upon thespecific application or applications for which the inventive teachingsis/are used. Those skilled in the art will recognize, or be able toascertain using no more than routine experimentation, many equivalentsto the specific inventive embodiments described herein. It is,therefore, to be understood that the foregoing embodiments are presentedby way of example only and that, within the scope of the appended claimsand equivalents thereto, inventive embodiments may be practicedotherwise than as specifically described and claimed. Inventiveembodiments of the present disclosure are directed to each individualfeature, system, article, material, kit, and/or method described herein.In addition, any combination of two or more such features, systems,articles, materials, kits, and/or methods, if such features, systems,articles, materials, kits, and/or methods are not mutually inconsistent,is included within the inventive scope of the present disclosure.

All definitions, as defined and used herein, should be understood tocontrol over dictionary definitions, definitions in documentsincorporated by reference, and/or ordinary meanings of the definedterms.

All references, patents and patent applications disclosed herein areincorporated by reference with respect to the subject matter for whicheach is cited, which in some cases may encompass the entirety of thedocument.

The indefinite articles “a” and “an,” as used herein in thespecification and in the claims, unless clearly indicated to thecontrary, should be understood to mean “at least one.”

The phrase “and/or,” as used herein in the specification and in theclaims, should be understood to mean “either or both” of the elements soconjoined, i.e., elements that are conjunctively present in some casesand disjunctively present in other cases. Multiple elements listed with“and/or” should be construed in the same fashion, i.e., “one or more” ofthe elements so conjoined. Other elements may optionally be presentother than the elements specifically identified by the “and/or” clause,whether related or unrelated to those elements specifically identified.Thus, as a non-limiting example, a reference to “A and/or B,” when usedin conjunction with open-ended language such as “comprising” can refer,in one embodiment, to A only (optionally including elements other thanB); in another embodiment, to B only (optionally including elementsother than A); in yet another embodiment, to both A and B (optionallyincluding other elements); etc.

As used herein in the specification and in the claims, “or” should beunderstood to have the same meaning as “and/or” as defined above. Forexample, when separating items in a list, “or” or “and/or” shall beinterpreted as being inclusive, i.e., the inclusion of at least one, butalso including more than one, of a number or list of elements, and,optionally, additional unlisted items. Only terms clearly indicated tothe contrary, such as “only one of” or “exactly one of,” or, when usedin the claims, “consisting of,” will refer to the inclusion of exactlyone element of a number or list of elements. In general, the term “or”as used herein shall only be interpreted as indicating exclusivealternatives (i.e. “one or the other but not both”) when preceded byterms of exclusivity, such as “either,” “one of,” “only one of,” or“exactly one of.” “Consisting essentially of,” when used in the claims,shall have its ordinary meaning as used in the field of patent law.

As used herein in the specification and in the claims, the phrase “atleast one,” in reference to a list of one or more elements, should beunderstood to mean at least one element selected from any one or more ofthe elements in the list of elements, but not necessarily including atleast one of each and every element specifically listed within the listof elements and not excluding any combinations of elements in the listof elements. This definition also allows that elements may optionally bepresent other than the elements specifically identified within the listof elements to which the phrase “at least one” refers, whether relatedor unrelated to those elements specifically identified. Thus, as anon-limiting example, “at least one of A and B” (or, equivalently, “atleast one of A or B,” or, equivalently “at least one of A and/or B”) canrefer, in one embodiment, to at least one, optionally including morethan one, A, with no B present (and optionally including elements otherthan B); in another embodiment, to at least one, optionally includingmore than one, B, with no A present (and optionally including elementsother than A); in yet another embodiment, to at least one, optionallyincluding more than one, A, and at least one, optionally including morethan one, B (and optionally including other elements); etc.

It should also be understood that, unless clearly indicated to thecontrary, in any methods claimed herein that include more than one stepor act, the order of the steps or acts of the method is not necessarilylimited to the order in which the steps or acts of the method arerecited.

In the claims, as well as in the specification above, all transitionalphrases such as “comprising,” “including,” “carrying,” “having,”“containing,” “involving,” “holding,” “composed of,” and the like are tobe understood to be open-ended, i.e., to mean including but not limitedto. Only the transitional phrases “consisting of” and “consistingessentially of” shall be closed or semi-closed transitional phrases,respectively, as set forth in the United States Patent Office Manual ofPatent Examining Procedures, Section 2111.03. It should be appreciatedthat embodiments described in this document using an open-endedtransitional phrase (e.g., “comprising”) are also contemplated, inalternative embodiments, as “consisting of” and “consisting essentiallyof” the feature described by the open-ended transitional phrase. Forexample, if the disclosure describes “a composition comprising A and B,”the disclosure also contemplates the alternative embodiments “acomposition consisting of A and B” and “a composition consistingessentially of A and B.”

What is claimed is:
 1. An engineered, non-naturally occurring adenoviruscomprising a modified genome, wherein the modified genome comprises: (a)an integration of a polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence ofa transcribable gene of interest, (b) a deletion of the sequenceencoding for the adenoviral DNA polymerase, (c) a deletion of a sequenceencoding for a protein necessary for the production of infectiousadenovirus particles, wherein the protein necessary for the productionof infectious adenovirus particles is not the adenoviral DNA polymeraseor E1, and (d) a sequence encoding at least one protein necessary forthe production of infectious adenovirus particles.
 2. The engineered,non-naturally occurring adenovirus of claim 1, wherein the engineered,non-naturally occurring adenovirus is derived from: (a) an adenovirusselected from the genera consisting of Adenovirus, Aviadenovirus,Ichtadenovirus, Mastadenovirus, and Siadenovirus; or (b) a humanadenovirus selected from the group consisting of HAdV-A, HAdV-B, HAdV-C,HAdV-D, HAdV-E, HAdV-F, and HAdV-G, optionally wherein the HAdV-Cadenovirus is selected from the group consisting of HAd2 and HAd5. 3.The engineered, non-naturally occurring adenovirus of claim 1, whereinthe sequence encoding for a protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles comprises the sequence encoding for theadenoviral protease.
 4. An engineered, non-naturally occurring mammaliancell comprising a modified genome, wherein the modified genomecomprises: (a) an integration of a polynucleic acid sequence comprisingthe sequence of an error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase, and (b) anintegration of a polynucleic acid sequence comprising a sequenceencoding for a protein necessary for the production of infectiousadenovirus particles, wherein the protein necessary for the productionof infectious adenovirus particles is not the adenoviral DNA polymerase,and wherein expression of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles is inducible.
 5. The engineered,non-naturally occurring mammalian cell of claim 4, wherein the sequenceencoding for a protein necessary for the production of infectiousadenovirus particles is not the sequence of the adenoviral fiberprotein.
 6. The engineered, non-naturally occurring mammalian cell ofclaim 4, wherein the engineered, non-naturally occurring mammalian cellis derived from a human cell, a mouse cell, a rat cell, a cat cell, adog cell, a pig cell, a guinea pig cell, a hamster cell, a sheep cell, amacaque cell, or a chimpanzee cell, optionally wherein the human cell isa human cell line.
 7. The engineered, non-naturally occurring mammaliancell of claim 4, wherein the sequence of the error-prone adenoviral DNApolymerase is derived from a sequence selected from the group consistingof the HAd2 and HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence, optionally wherein theHAd5 DNA polymerase: (a) comprises the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence withat least one mutation selected from the group consisting of T286I,N417A, F421Y, S506T, V585A, and D827A; or (b) consists of SEQ ID NO: 27.8. The engineered, non-naturally occurring mammalian cell of claim 4,wherein the sequence encoding for a protein necessary for the productionof infectious adenovirus particles comprises the sequence of theadenoviral protease.
 9. A method of performing continuous directedevolution of a polynucleic acid sequence, wherein said polynucleic acidsequence comprises the sequence of a gene of interest, said methodcomprising: (a) contacting a plurality of engineered, non-naturallyoccurring mammalian cells with a plurality of engineered, non-naturallyoccurring adenoviruses capable of infecting the mammalian cells, therebyproducing a population of infected cells, wherein: (i) each engineered,non-naturally occurring adenovirus comprises a modified genome, whereinthe modified genome comprises: an integration of a polynucleic acidsequence comprising the sequence of a transcribable gene of interest, adeletion of the sequence encoding for the adenoviral DNA polymerase, anda deletion of a sequence encoding for a protein necessary for theproduction of infectious adenovirus particles wherein the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious adenovirus particles is notthe adenoviral DNA polymerase; and (ii) each engineered, non-naturallyoccurring mammalian cell comprises a modified genome, wherein themodified genome comprises: an integration of a polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence of an error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase, andan integration of a polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequenceencoding for the protein necessary for the production of infectiousadenovirus particles in (a)(i) under the control of a functional couple,optionally wherein the functional couple is a transcriptionally-coupledpromoter, and (b) generating infectious adenovirus particles with theinfected cells, wherein the generation of the infectious adenovirusparticles is increased by the evolution of the polynucleic acid sequencecomprising the sequence of the transcribable gene of interest whereinsaid evolution is driven by the error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase.10. The method of claim 9, further comprising screening the infectedcells for infectious adenovirus particles.
 11. The method of claim 9,wherein the polynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of atranscribable gene of interest is a protein coding sequence, whereinexpression and translation of the protein coding sequence generates aprotein product, optionally wherein the protein product, when unevolved:(a) induces the expression of the polynucleic acid sequence comprisingthe sequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles, and wherein the method furthercomprises contacting the mammalian cells with an agent that decreasesthe capability of the protein product of inducing expression of theprotein necessary for the production of infectious adenovirus particles;(b) inhibits the expression of the polynucleic acid sequence comprisingthe sequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles; (c) cannot induce the expression of thepolynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence encoding for theprotein necessary for the production of infectious adenovirus particles;(d) regulates the stability of the protein necessary for the productionof infectious adenovirus particles; or (e) regulates the subcellulartrafficking of the protein necessary for the production of infectiousadenovirus particles.
 12. The method of claim 9, wherein the sequenceencoding for the protein necessary for the production of infectiousadenovirus particles further comprises the sequence of an inhibitorytag, wherein the sequence of the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles and the sequence of the inhibitory tagare coupled, and wherein: (a) translation of the sequence comprising thesequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles and the sequence of the inhibitory taggenerates a tagged protein; and (b) removal of inhibitory tag isdependent upon the evolution of the at least one polynucleic acidsequence comprising the sequence of the gene of interest; optionallywherein: the inhibitory tag is selected from the group consisting of aprotein degradation tag or a protein sequestration tag, optionallywherein the protein degradation tag is a degron tag; or the gene ofinterest is a protease.
 13. The method of claim 9, wherein: (a) thepolynucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of a transcribablegene of interest is a sequence of a non-coding RNA; and/or (b) thesequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles further comprises a premature stop codonin the sequence encoding for the protein necessary for the production ofinfectious adenovirus particles.
 14. The method of claim 13, wherein thesequence of the gene of interest comprises the sequence of a tRNA or anaminoacyl tRNA synthetase.
 15. The method of claim 9, wherein theengineered, non-naturally occurring adenovirus is derived from: (a) anadenovirus selected from the genera consisting of Adenovirus,Aviadenovirus, Ichtadenovirus, Mastadenovirus, and Siadenovirus; or (b)a human adenovirus selected from the group consisting of HAdV-A, HAdV-B,HAdV-C, HAdV-D, HAdV-E, HAdV-F, and HAdV-G, optionally wherein theHAdV-C adenovirus is selected from the group consisting of HAd2 andHAd5.
 16. The method of claim 9, wherein the sequence encoding for aprotein necessary for the production of infectious adenovirus particlescomprises the sequence encoding for the adenoviral protease.
 17. Themethod of claim 9, wherein the engineered, non-naturally occurringmammalian cell is derived from a human cell, a mouse cell, a rat cell, acat cell, a dog cell, a pig cell, a guinea pig cell, a hamster cell, asheep cell, a macaque cell, or a chimpanzee cell, optionally wherein thehuman cell is a human cell line.
 18. The method of claim 9, wherein thesequence of the error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase is derived from asequences selected from the group consisting of the HAd2 and HAd5 DNApolymerase sequence, optionally wherein the HAd5 DNA polymerase: (a)comprises the HAd5 DNA polymerase sequence with at least one mutationselected from the group consisting of T286I, N417A, F421Y, S506T, V585A,and D827A; or (b) consists of SEQ ID NO:
 27. 19. The method of claim 9,wherein the error-prone adenoviral DNA polymerase is constitutivelyexpressed in the engineered, non-naturally occurring mammalian cells.20. The method of claim 9, wherein the method further comprisescontacting the engineered, non-naturally occurring mammalian cells witha small molecule that decreases the functionality of the proteinnecessary for the production of infectious DNA viral particles.